Homeopathy

The "medicine" becomes VERY effective when it's been diluted so much that there's not a single molecule of it left.
Once the actual size of molecules become known, they "justified" this BS with claims that the "healing" property was somehow "imprinted" on the water. (This is the first time I've seen alcohol used as the dilutant. I guess drinking it WILL make you feel better even if it has no effect on the disease.)

I thought was taking some "natural" and concentrating it and then calling it medicine. Like super concentrated carrot juice or something.

I too watch kurzgesagt

No it's taking a substance which is mystically linked to the disease you want to cure, then diluting it by a factor of at least a billion. The magical essence thereby creates an effective cure, so the reasoning goes.

That's even more insane than I imagined.

>That's even more insane than I imagined.
That's what I'm saying (OP here by the way).
Like I could sort of understand people falling for other kinds of pseudoscience, but to blatantly tell people you're making their medicine *more* potent by diluting it, as in the less there is of the allegedly active ingredient and the more there is of water, the more powerful it becomes, is something I can't wrap my head around.

Idk man, whydo people believe flat Earth? Or illuminati? The one thing they all have in common is that they think the government or whatever is lying to them. It's some kind of paranoia that's common in low-income areas.

But "flat" is just a description of shape, and also the Earth does look flat to some extent from the perspective of someone standing on it, so that isn't the same sort of counterintuitive weirdness as the dilution == power thing.
Same with illuminati, that's just a belief in a powerful group of wealthy people influencing events for their own benefit, which again isn't at all counterintuitive.
The idea that the more times you dilute a substance the more powerful goes completely against not just scientific evidence but run of the mill everyday common sense, that's the part I don't get. I can't even understand a reason for why someone would begin to believe that, which is something I can do for almost any other pseudoscience bullshit I'm aware of.

People enjoy the feeling of being let in on a secret by someone with rare and powerful knowledge, who is nevertheless a maverick. That's why buy into "it actually gets stronger as you dilute it! weird but true".

>words don't have meaning
>everything it subjective, you can't know nuffin
>that means everything I say is right
I can't wait for the truth and reality and really catch up with society and everyone's forced to take rationality seriously

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>weird but true
That makes sense, it's sort of like Rorschach said Moloch's story was "probably true" because it "sounds unbelievable," which is terrible reasoning but I guess the thinking behind it is that someone lying to you would try to make the lie sound believable, so if something sounds extremely unbelievable then you at least get the impression they aren't trying very hard to persuade you that their bullshit is true.

>How is this a multi-billion dollar industry?
low production cost
enough mom's to buy the merchendice