Lecture 4 Flashcards
what is the goal of OSS
seperate sense from non sense
what is misinformation
people saying things that are just wrong
what is disinformation
saying things that we know are what true
what is the theory of signatures
it is like when a plant that looks like a part of the body like a walnut is good for the brain
why did people like snake oil
-people were selling it saying that it would cure anything
-it contained alcohol so people liked it
what is quackery
someone claims that they know smth but they dunno
quacks come from which word
quacksalver which is a boaster that applies a slave
what is alpha spin
-piece of glass
-infused with nanobioenergy using infrared
-can be used to purify beverages
-you hold it over your head
what does radotech do
diagnoses you with any disease that you have
true or false: people who took hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die form covid
true because some docs were claiming that it would protect you from covid
what did people’s chemist say to do
ditch your meds because they are bad for u
who is joseph mercola
-has the worlds biggest health website
-biggest information mispreader about covid
who is doc oz
-he was a doc on oprah then he got his own show
-likes homeopathy
what is homeopathy
A THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM OF “MEDICINE” THAT IS BASED ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF “LIKE CURES LIKE” WHICH MEANS THAT A SUBSTANCE THAT CAN CAUSE CERTAIN SYMPTOMS IN A HEALTHY PERSON CAN CURE SIMILAR SYMPTOMS IN AN UNHEALTHY PERSON
homeopathic medecines are derived from what
“HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE DERIVED FROM A VARIETY OF PLANTS, ANIMAL MATERIALS AND MINERALS AND ARE PRESCRIBED TO FIT EACH INDIVIDUAL’S NEEDS. THEY ARE GIVEN IN MUCH SMALLER AND LESS TOXIC DOSES THAN TRADITIONAL MEDICATIONS, AND ARE USED FOR BOTH PREVENTION AND TREATMENT.”
what is alternative medecine
it is everything that is not taught at school but we dunno yet if this work
who was samuel hahnemann
-doc from 1755
-he was a doc of his time
-he wanted a better way to treat patients
-worked with cinchona bark
what was the old treatment for malaria
-cinchona bark from peru
-contains quinine
what did hahnemann do with the bark
-People didn’t know which dosage to use so he decided to be his own guinea pig: he kept getting more until he got a fever and then he was like oh that is the right amount for curing other people lol
-He started to test on his friends and relatives like with more arsenic you get fucking sick and poop and vomit so it is a good remedy for food poisoning
true or false: in homeopathy, the more diluted the thing is the most potent it is
true
what is the vehicle for homeopathy like the lil pill
it is a sugar pill
true or false: according for homeopathy: if you shake the vial it’ll potentiate the solution
true
-When you dilute and shake and then the water gets a ghost image of the og substance so that is what makes the magic
true or false: the 30c is the best dilution
true but you have no more of the og solution from the start
what did JAQUES BENVENISTE do
-A paper in nature was submitted and it showed that the solution that could not have contained any substance somehow triggered immune cells
-people were like wtf
-published with a like warning because he used to be a big scientist
