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Do any of you know if it's possible to buy a bag of sugar pillules, like the ones you find in homeopathic dispensers?
I want to replace the contents of my sisters homeopathic kit with sugar pills, then laugh at her when she continues to maintain "It really works!"
(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:04, archived)
pillules!

(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:05, archived)
Think about this for more than one second
and you will realise how retarded it is.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:05, archived)
You would be replacing them with the same thing.
Why not just not replace them and tell her that you have.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:06, archived)
oh i know they are already worthless and contain absolutely nothing
But it would be funny to replace them with an indistinguishable placebo, then reveal all to her down the line
(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:08, archived)
It would be better for both of you if you explained to her how medicine worked.

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:15, archived)
Sister: "I had a stomach ache, and was feeling fatigued and took such and such a homeopathic remedy and felt much better afterwards. Ergo it works"
Me: "No you didn't. I replaced your such and such homeopathic remedy with pure sugar pills a week ago. What you took was a placebo. Ergo homeopathy doesn't work"

Sister: "Oh. What a fool i've been. Thanks for enlightening me with this marvellous ruse"
(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:18, archived)
If she really believed in homeopathy she could argue that by redcing the chance of an active ingredient you have actually made the medicine stronger ;)

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:20, archived)
But she would claim they're different things.
This might be a good way to show her that the placebo effect is much more powerful than homeopathy
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:08, archived)
^ this!

(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:09, archived)
She would be wrong to claim that.

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:14, archived)
She would be
But this is about shattering her belief in homeopathy with some proof
(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:15, archived)
Yes.
And doing something like this might show her that.
If she's taking the stuff, she probably wouldn't listen to the 'it's just sugar' argument
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:16, archived)
The magical homeopathic medicine could have rubbed off on the sugar pills.

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:23, archived)
placebos.

(I helped save b3ta! Cleisthenes morning sickness is a bitch, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:05, archived)
applehead you shit

(I helped save b3ta! TopUpTheTea you ain't seen me, right?, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:06, archived)
I don't really need to go
But i'll try and squeeze one out for you
(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:09, archived)
Buy some generic capsule drugs
empty the capsules
fill them with hundreds and thousands, or a mixture of salt and castor sugar.
reseal.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:07, archived)
Why bother replacing them?
As homeopathic medicine, they're probably just sugar pills anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! FoldsFive, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:10, archived)
I know this
But if the original contents remain she can claim THESE ones contain Sulphur, THESE ones Arsenicum Album etc etc

If i replace them with sugar pills, and show her the container from which i dispensed them, I'm basically showing her the placebo effect and that homeopathy is a crock of shit
(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:13, archived)
I thought the debut Arsenicum Album was the best.
They'd lost their way by the second one.
(I helped save b3ta! FoldsFive, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:16, archived)
I would simply point out to her that
a) eating sulpher is retarded
b) eating Arsenic is retarded
c) these pills would be retarded if they contained those things
d) these pills are even more retarded by the fact that they don't contain those things anyway
e) she is retarded
f) you are ashamed to share DNA with her.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:16, archived)
lol

(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Sun 17 May 2009, 19:19, archived)