I see now. He’s using homeopathy as if it were a “cure” for pregnancy, not a birth control technique (why didn’t you say so). Apologies for my nonstandard interpretation of the comically drawn box. Since I don’t generally see pregnancy as a pathology, I didn’t go down that line at all.
I think my way of looking at it is funnier, but maybe that’s why there’s no “extraface comics” or “extraface explained.”
PS, I don’t mind offending homeopaths.
Wow, Xkcdexplained really blew this one. It’s not “…safe in the knowledge that unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are blocked by the remedy.” It should be “safe in the knowledge that the extremely dilute solution will, in fact, get her pregnant as is the couple’s desire.” They’re using homeopathy as a way to assure fertilization of the egg, not to avoid pregnancy and STD’s. See? So then they won’t actually get pregnant, and won’t pass on the ‘gene for belief in homeopathy’ and then the punchline “belief in homeopathy is not, evolutionarily, selected for.”
Hi. I don’t mean to be contrarian, but that would be a fundamental misunderstanding of how Homeopathy works. Homeopathy functions by using a “like-cures-like” function. Unless you want to say Randall didn’t research his topic and understand it, the interpretation offered by xkcdexplained is the only valid explanation.
To take your interpretation would be to say that Randall didn’t do his homework. Any real fan of XKCD knows that he researches everything exhaustively. That’s why XKCDExplained exists, to help people understand tricky comics like this one.
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