One of the coolest things about measles is that if it doesn’t unalive you, just wait. That was round one. It has this amazing ability to erase your adaptive immune system through a process called immune amnesia. Every vaccine you have gotten, every flu you have had, every bacteria infection, ear infection UTI and the rest where your body learned to target a specific infectious disease is erased from its memory.
A conspiracy theory cannot stay the same size. It constantly has to grow because every time you find a way to disprove the conspiracy it creates a bigger conspiracy as you have to create sub-conspiracies to account for the “false” evidence that disproves the conspiracy. This process is what I’m calling Conspiracy Scope Inflation.
Questions that homeopathy should have answered in a century:
1) how long do the vibrations last?
2) how can you test a homeopathic pill to see if the vibrations have decreased
3) what are the frequencies of the vibrations for the different homeopathic ingredients?
4) do the vibrations decrease over time?
5) how do you remove all previous vibrations?
6) what is the half life of the vibrations and does it change from the vibrations of an onion to the vibrations of a duck liver at some point?
7) by what mechanism does the body read and measure these vibrations?
8) once measured by the body what actions are taken and now can measure them?
9) how are vibrations transfered from one molecule to another?
10) how does the native vibrations of water change the vibrations of the substance? Because vibrations set frequencies and when you add two frequencies you get a new third frequency.
11) how are these frequencies different from brownian motion?
12) how can you verify your water is free of vibrations from previous interactions?
A good dissection of bullshit “science” about vaccines - this dissection also highlights good general points to think about when applying critical thinking to any such out of left field “scientific” claims on the internet or those blathering dolts on TV news segments.
One question is: can you stop your friend believing these conspiracy theories? Regrettably, almost certainly not, at least not without a huge investment of time and patience. People are free to think whatever they want and some of us put that freedom to the weirdest uses. At least we can be thankful the conspiracies your friend has latched on to are about objects in the sky and not, say, which reptilian species is secretly controlling things.
If you’ve been following the politics of the pandemic response, you can pretty much predict the sorts of conclusions the committee’s majority wanted to reach: Masks were useless, the vaccines weren’t properly tested for safety, and any restrictions meant to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 were ill-informed, etc. At the same time, some efforts pursued during the Trump administration, such as the Operation Warp Speed development of vaccines or the travel restrictions he put in place, are singled out for praise.
So when it comes to Pycnogenol, I wouldn’t recommend it as a daily or routine supplement, but I wouldn’t dismiss it if someone wanted to use it for one of the more evidence-backed reasons for use. Hopefully more trials will be conducted to better establish its place in therapy.
Steven Paul Novella (born July 29, 1964) is an American clinical neurologist and associate professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Novella is best known for his involvement in the skeptical movement as a host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast and as the president of the New England Skeptical Society. He is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI).
TL;DR - The Ancient Aliens/Graham Hancock crowd are obscuring the real need to observe any large bodies passing near Earth, such as the comet creating the Taurid meteor shower, for possible meteor strikes.
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