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  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 days ago

    The quote is from Tim Minchin. I think the track name is Storm.

    It’s him talking to someone at a dinner party and he’s trying to bite his tongue when someone new starts talking stupidity, but it gets to a point where he breaks and goes off on a rent.

    It’s a very well written and entertaining bit.

    What what’s missing from the quote is something along the lines of “You know what they call alternate medicine that is proven to work? Medicine”

    The whole point of the quote is exactly what you are saying that some medicines legitimately started as alternative medicines

    Edit: i realize now it might not have been a quote at all regardless of how similar it is the that Tim Minchin bit

    • Deebster@infosec.pub
      11·
      5 days ago

      “Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.

      From Dara Ó Briain. Also from him:

      Chinese medicine, oh, Chinese medicine! “But there are billions of Chinese, Chinese medicine must be working.” Here’s the skinny on Chinese medicine. A hundred years ago the average life expectancy in China was 30. The life expectancy in China at the moment is 73. And it’s not feckin’ tiger penis that turned it around for the Chinese. Didn’t do much for the tiger, if you don’t mind me pointing out.