I Have A System For Managing Disasters Without You

This post, being about quackery, isn't really on a race issue. Except it's happening in Haiti. And Haitians are black. And really, really poor. And homeopaths are usually white. Playing "doctor."

I just shuddered to think of it (hint to some of you: that's what a "normal" American feels right about there) and now I feel so haunted I'm even sorry I had to bring it up at all:

“Despite Homeopaths Without Borders’ claims to the contrary, ‘homeopathic humanitarian help’ is a contradiction in terms. Although providing food, water, and solace to people in areas affected by wars and natural disasters certainly constitutes valuable humanitarian work, any homeopathic treatment deceives patients into thinking they are receiving real treatment when they are not. 

Homeopathy is neither helpful nor humanitarian, and to claim otherwise to the victims of disasters amounts to exploitation,...”

I wish everybody would stop saying "victims" because American conservatives' heads will explode.

And I got enough on my plate already,...

 

Why're Charlie Manson's Girls In Prison Again?

Above is the face of a killer - a NewAge killer - and another of the least likely suspects in mass murder anyone would suspect, but there you go:

About Dr. Wendy Pollock

Dr Pollock is traveling to Tanzania during January, February, and early March, 2011 to volunteer with Homeopaths Without Borders to treat AIDS clients. Dr Pollock views this as a wider mission to serve the underserved,...

Great. And of course, like all the members of this "loving community", the good "doctor" - a chiropractor - is also a "yoga practitioner".

Funny - how yoga's always in the mix somewhere - isn't it?

We think the whole set-up's just fucking hilarious.

If You Can't Be Cruel To The Poor And Desperate, Then Who Can You Be Cruel To?

"If their health care is substandard, isn't it rather cruel to charge in and make it worse?"

-- P.Z. Myers, on the "cruel" (but still silly) group known as "Homeopaths Without Borders," who want to "transfer homeopathy to those countries, where public health care and medical supply of the people is sub-standard," on the science-y (but still silly) blog called Pharyngula.