Rubbish Homeopathy Cartoons

Big hat-tip to Alan Henness (via @RachelOfTheNorf) for this one. He tweeted a page on homeopathy site hpathy.com that contains some truly atrocious cartoons, possibly even worse than those by Mike Adams of naturalnews.com. The ‘cartoonist’ in question is Alan V. Schmukler, a homeopath with a drawing style which I can only compare to a 5 year old let loose on MS Paint. Here’s a taster:

The above cartoon appeals to the fallacy that you have to try homeopathy to judge it’s efficacy, which is total bullshit. You don’t have to experience something to make a judgement on it. As an extreme example, would you need to murder someone to prove to yourself that murder is wrong?

I’ve ploughed my way through all of these cartoons, and what struck me was that the cartoons don’t just deal with homeopathy and all the logical fallacies associated with it, they also branch of into “big pharma” conspiracies and anti-vaccinationist propaganda. Here’s a classic post hoc fallacy:

That certainly doesn’t do anything to support the idea that homeopathy is a credible science, as opposed to a fantasy that belongs in the realm of conspiracy nuts. I could go on, but I think I’ve given the general picture of these woeful comics. I’ll show one more, because it has a little dig at the 10:23 campaign. The people in the cartoon might even be the hosts of the Skeptics With a K podcast. Check out the comic sans!

One Comment

  1. Nick

    It’s the Comic Sans I’d take offence at more than anything else, to be honest… (much as @VincentConnare seems like a fine, upstanding chap)

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