001. authors Justin McElroy and Dr. Syndnee McElroy write at popsci.com in "So, What's the Deal With Homeopathy?" (2018-10-09):
"late-1700s medicine was a strange and wild place. There we no shortage of theories and research, and no shortage of bizarre experiments and treatments. It was the age of Heroic Medicine, when treatments were prescribed in order to balance out the body’s humors, with plenty of sweating, bloodletting, and vomiting—and what with that being the easiest way of balancing the humours, this probably meant a lot of vomiting [...] there is zero evidence to support the use of homeopathy. Homeopathy can be dangerous, in that it keeps people from seeking out actual medicine, and it’s also a rip-off. The fact that homeopathic cures are sold alongside actual medicine is one of the dumbest things that happens on Earth, and we’re writing this in 2018, so let’s just say it’s a heated competition";
hear, hear. Their book is The Sawbones Book: the Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine.
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