Our vet prescribed a homeopathic medicine to us today, which surprised me, since I’m aware that homeopathic medicine is shunned/scoffed at and thought to be impossible by the scientific/academic community, but it didn’t bother me. My point of view is that, since homepathic medicine is still going strong and readily available despite the apparent absurdity of it and ~100 years of scientific/academic pushback, there have to be tons of people who are actually noticing results. My vet tech himself said that the healing can be amazing and observed over a relatively short period of time.
He said that the medicine works with “energy” (as in a nebulous/abstract, mystical, non-physical definition of “energy”), which really can be the only way it can work because, as far as I’ve heard, they dilute the active ingredient in homeopathic medicine so much that there are practically no molecules of it left in the final product. This is completely plausible to me because the scientific/physical/chemical/biochemical/biological accounts of reality could very well be incomplete. They can only account for what can be empirically (i.e., physically) measured, and the idea that physics, the nuclear model, etc. fundamentally account for everything that exists is weakened by the fact these models take zero consideration of any lived psychic, paranormal, etc. experiences or anything else that scientists readily facilely dismiss as “anecdotal evidence” en masse (to say nothing of the many times such phenomena actually have been statistically proven under controlled conditions).
(The fact that the mystic’s account of “energy” is nebulous/not wholly defined is not actually a point against it, because it perfectly suits the fact that the subject matter itself is something that’s inherently difficult for us to know about and/or understand because we can’t observe it empirically and it’s probably not even a mechanistic process.)
The last time I debated with somebody about homeopathy, his entire argument was that he thinks it’s impossible and absurd because there’s no evidence that it’s legitimate, and when I asked him if he was aware of whether there’s any evidence either way–for or against it–his answer was, “no.” And yet he continued to make the same argument after that. When I pressed him further, he broke all civility and called me a dumbass, at which point I promptly dressed him down and he shut up. I think his sort of thinking is typical of people who reflexively scoff at homeopathy.
