The Inoculation -- Vaccine Misinformation and Society
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Homeopathy, the principle that ‘like cures like’ even in trace amounts, came to be at a time when opium, blood-letting and alcohol were all common treatments for illnesses. Study after study, it has been proven not to work, and testing of homeopathic products appears to often fail to follow established ethics. But many European countries allow selling sugar pills with ‘memory’ water alongside clinically tested drugs.
The idea of memory water also appeals to anti-vaccine entrepreneurs. And, as we discuss in this episode, homeopathic and anti-vaccine communities significantly overlap.
Sources:
https://en.rebaltica.lv/2021/02/who-spreads-the-vaccine-lies-in-the-baltics/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/ginger-root-and-meteorite-dust-the-steiner-covid-cures-offered-in-germany
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/was-esoterik-mit-impfgegnern-zu-tun-hat,Sq9wIpr
https://www.medmedia.at/relatus-med/homoeopathen-rufen-zu-corona-impfung-auf/
https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/resources/homeopathy
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