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  • T156@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldAre fossil fuels vegan?
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    9 days ago

    There’s a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep’s wool.

    Although crude oil has the additional complication where it’s an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.










  • Assuming this effect existed, wouldn’t the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)?

    Yes.

    If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily

    No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.



  • T156@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzwhen ur higher than sagan
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    23 days ago

    The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.

    It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so if you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through some principle of magnetism.

    It’s not like it magically somehow worked, and everyone was in amazement or anything quite like that. The only real reasons it did anything at all was that its contemporary treatments were things like bloodletting, which were worse for most things than not doing anything at all, or as a result of placebo.