Using radiotherapy to cure cancer which was caused by exposure to radioactive materials sounds a lot like homeopathy (except in this case it actually works)

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• HeckGazer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Man slashed with knife goes into surgery to be slashed further by smaller knives”

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Once we get better at treating cancers we will look back at Chemo and Radiotherapy with the same mind as we currently look back at mediaeval procedures.

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  • cdf12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, it just sucks that the hit or miss accuracy of many current treatments will be like that for many decades. It’s just part of the process towards eventually getting to extremely effective treatments with minimal side effects.

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  • valkyre09@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of that scene in Star Trek when Bones is in the hospital in the 80s and completely overwhelmed by all the barbaric procedures.

    youtu.be/cJNgA1n0er0

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d say a vaccine is a better example of successful homeopathy.

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  • mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vaccines have nothing in common with homeopathy.

    Vaccines are a preventive measure that expose your immune system to small amount of pathogens, their toxins or small parts of their genetic code (mRNA vaccines) to build up immunity and prevent or lessen future infections. Their effects are proven in multiple studies and meta studies.

    Homeopathy is quackery that dilutes organic or anorganic materials (that randomly got associated with symptoms, e.g. Berlin Wall against binding problems) to infinity to treat an existing condition.
    Every high-quality scientific study leads to the realisation that Homeopathy doesn’t act beyond placebo effects.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Homeopathy is a treatment that uses a stressor or pathogen to treat the same disease caused by that stressor or pathogen.

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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not really. Homeopathy is diluting the offending substance with water until it is essentially gone while believing that the recently departed molecules had automagically imparted medicinal properties to the surrounding water molecules. It is quackery up there with ayylmaos and bigfoot enthusiasts.

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  • Bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While you are right about the dilutions. The specific ingredients used are picked based off of the idea “like cures like”. So to cure day a headache they would use an ingredient that causes headaches etc. Total quakery

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• zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No. It more like, “If you break what’s broken maybe everything will work again”

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  • Signtist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More like “If we further break what’s half-broken and going haywire, maybe it’ll stop.”

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• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  one of more common high energy radiation linked cancers are leukemias, and these are mostly treated with chemotherapy (unless you’re deleting entire bone marrow and getting a little bit from someone else)

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or… hair of the dig that bit ya.

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