More ways to start a geek argument

[caliantrias]

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/ten-more-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/

10. “Internet Explorer is much better than Firefox-why else would it be the most popular browser?”AUUUUUUUUGHHHHH!!!! You people!! WHY WHY WHY do you continue

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A fun little post getting a completely box-on-a-street corner reply. Sorry!

[wolodymyr]

If I can ask, what do you have to say to the people for whom homeopathy has, well, worked?

It's just funny to me, because this entry happened to appear on my feed directly beneath the entry of someone who was scheduled for brain surgery because of serious nerve pain, ducked out at the last moment to work with a craniosacral therapist, and is now doing okay.

Now, what does craniosacral therapy "do", right? It's completely wacky. I wouldn't defend it as medicine. But I credit this friend on my feed for choosing the least damaging method that shows results, and for what it's worth, this is the first time she's given non-allopathic medicine the time of day.

My question is, if there's an adequate system for medical care, how many people are going to go for homeopathy? So where is this energy devoted to scorn for homeopathy most properly directed? IMHO: at elected representatives not fighting for single payer health care. Compared to having an adequate system, the fun of mocking people trying homeopathy is totally second-rate.

Re: A fun little post getting a completely box-on-a-street corner reply. Sorry!

[caliantrias]

Nice job. Pick out the one I'm least prepared to defend

Re: A fun little post getting a completely box-on-a-street corner reply. Sorry!

[wolodymyr]

Oh, agreed, agreed. I actually feel like I'm shorting you, because wasn't this supposed to start a geek argument?

"Medicine is only part science." Exactly. It can suffer itself to bend toward what works. My boyfriend got EMT training, and while doing ride-alongs, he found that apparently the most crystal-angel-aura friendly people in the world are paramedics, because whatever keeps you calm, and more likely to make it alive to the hospital, is aces by them.

Re: A fun little post getting a completely box-on-a-street corner reply. Sorry!

[mojave_wolf]

I can remember two specific instances where it worked for really severe, potentially fatal allergic reactions, one for Sasha and one for Satori, I know I used to use a homeopathic rememdy on a regular basis for *something*, and that we used them on a regular basis for our dogs, but damned if I can remember the details for the rest, but we had at least equally, if not somewhat better, results from homeopathy as for other things for physical conditions.

Didn't work for everything -- had no impact whatsoever on Sasha's bipolar disorder; but mostly I'm sticking on the side of the positive anecdotal evidence on this one. Damn, moving sucked. We completely got away from that and now neither of us remember anything.