{"id":1233,"date":"2010-07-03T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2010-07-03T21:46:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T02:46:37","slug":"at-last-homeopathy-clearly-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/at-last-homeopathy-clearly-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"At Last, Homeopathy Clearly Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

When dealing with a True Believer in nonsense like homeopathy, you can take the time to carefully point out why what they believe in is impossible.\u00c2\u00a0 You can refer to chemistry and physics and just plain old common sense.\u00c2\u00a0 You can do this for hours, and then days, almost always to no avail.<\/p>\n

So you might as well just make fun of their stupidity.<\/p>\n

The first two people in this clip are for real.<\/p>\n

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Kudos go to the mashup artist for including clips from the Retro Encabulator:<\/p>\n

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The Retro Encabulator is, as you all know, an improvement on the Turbo Encabulator:<\/p>\n

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This is more of the same, but there’s fresh material at the 1:50 mark, explaining how to repair it, or at least generate high bills from your customer.<\/p>\n

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You’ll find many more variations if you search Turbo Encabulator or Retro Encabulator on YouTube.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s older than that \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this joke goes back to 1962, when someone inserted a joke data sheet<\/a> for it into a GE Handbook, complete with a diagram to accompany the description.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s older than that \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was reportedly spotted in the “Institution of Electrical Engineers, Students Quarterly Journal” in 1955.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s older than that \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was originally published<\/a> in Time magazine in 1946.<\/p>\n

Wait, what were we talking about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When dealing with a True Believer in nonsense like homeopathy, you can take the time to carefully point out why what they believe in is impossible.\u00c2\u00a0 You can refer to chemistry and physics and just plain old common sense.\u00c2\u00a0 You can do this for hours, and then days, almost always to no avail. So you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}