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    Tim Minchin: Storm

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    10:21 · 1.2M views · Jan 29, 2011

    Tim Minchin performs his comedic beat poem 'Storm', a roughly nine-minute rant against homeopathy, alternative medicine and woolly thinking. It is delivered as a fast, rhyming monologue built around an encounter at a dinner party.

    HN commenters link it as a funny, quotable takedown of alternative medicine and cite its lines (such as 'alternative medicine that works is called medicine') in threads on homeopathy.

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    4 comments from Hacker News

    1. @balabasterNov 2016· in “Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work, US gov orders”

      Slightly off-topic, but I can't help but recall a rather hilarious 9 minute beat poem by Tim Minchin "By definition", I begin "Alternative Medicine", I continue "Has either not been proved to work, Or been proved not to work. Do you know what they call "alternative medicine" That's been proved to work? Medicine." this video

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    2. @gcanyonMar 2025· in “Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's?”

      The actual quote (from memory, but I just listened to the monologue a minute ago): "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been scientifically proven to work? Medicine!" In other words, the quote is exactly referring to your "pipeline." Tim Minchin's "Storm" monologue: this video

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    3. @bitwizeJul 2024· in “Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation”

      "It's a miracle! Take physics and bin it! Water has memory , and whilst its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it." --Tim Minchin this video

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    4. @atombenderJul 2025· in “Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)”

      Are you trying saying the quote is misattributed? Because it's from Tim Minchin's comedy act/poem "Storm" [1]. [1] this video

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