Sun, 31 Jan 2010
Homeopathy Skeptics Fail
Youtube has a video up of the demonstration against homeopathy held by a skeptical organization calling itself 10:23. The video was put up by the organization itself, so it showed the demonstration in its best light. By any standards, the demonstration was a failure. Only a handful of people showed up, all obviously members of the organization itself and on a first name basis with each other. All the while the general public walked by oblivious to the demonstration. Someone should explain to these bright minds that the end of January is not a good date to hold an outdoors demonstration in England. A more rational person would have waited until Samuel Hahnemann's birthday in April. If you are trying to persuade a profit oriented company like Boots from selling a product, having only half a dozen people show up on their door is only going to cause them to ignore you as loudmouths in the future. There are better ways the leverage your numbers if you are a small, but dedicated group. But why should I be giving them tips?
There's an extra laugh in the video. Boots sells its homeopathic remedies in a tube that dispenses a single pill with a click. The video starts with the demonstrators all laboriously click click clicking into a styrofoam cup to get all the pills out of the tube. Here's a comment from Reddit: "It's too bad these people are such flaming idiots, they might have proved a point."
