when a homeopath goes full mental jacket

ou probably don’t remember homeopath John Benneth, mentioned here for his pretty stunning ignorance of middle school physics when trying to explain how his magic water works, and known on a several popular medical blogs for his unhinged rants on YouTube in which he takes Godwin’s Law to new heights (or would lows be more appropriate in this case?), and uses slavery as a metaphor for what happens to alt med frauds like himself. Apparently, there’s a sinister cabal of doctors who are burning homeopaths in gas chambers by the millions just for being homeopaths, or legally keeping them as slaves. Yeah, I know, I don’t get his raving either, but methinks the man needs a sedative because he’s quite unwell. Lately, he’s been listening to more voices in his head and decided to publish a tract about how every single problem in the U.S. could be solved simply by applying the right sugar pills sprinkled with water containing half an atom of some herb or minerals selected using 19th century pseudoscience, even pedophilia and child abuse. Now, you may ask yourself if a blogger like me is really about to pick on someone who’s quite clearly a lunatic, and the answer is yes.
Even woo-meister, professional idiot and conspiracy theorist Mike Adams may have found his match with this fellow, who’s so woefully and appaulingly uneducated, he thinks water will get 135,000 kids to stop taking guns to schools because they’re afraid of school gangs, shootings, and being bullied, and end serious racial discrimination in the justice system while ending domestic abuse for millions of women. Hold on, you might say, this may well be a big Poe. And as nice as it would be to find out that Benneth only wanted to parody just how conspiracy-obsessed and scientifically ignorant too many homeopaths are, he’s been at this for a while and shows every intent of being deadly serious. Even those whose support his talks admit that he’s horridly deficient in popular science topics, much any less high level scientific research, and resort to the good, old well-we-need-to-hear-more-opinions defense, apparently even if those opinions are coming from a loon who trumpets that he’s found proof that Big Pharma and the WHO want to tax the internet to get rich. Answers to any requests for evidence or sources tend to be met with more incoherent rambling, the type you’d probably expect from a random drunk sitting at an intersection and shouting at invisible people across the street.
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