1.2M views · Jan 29, 2011 · 10:21 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2016–2025
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: 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.
“a rather hilarious 9 minute beat poem by Tim Minchin”HN comment, 2016
“a rather hilarious 9 minute beat poem by Tim Minchin”
Hilarious beat poem on alternative medicine versus medicine
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
“It's a miracle! Take physics and bin it!”
Quote mocking water memory in homeopathy
"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
“the quote is exactly referring to your”
Source of the alternative medicine that works is medicine quote
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
“Because it's from Tim Minchin's comedy act/poem”
Origin of the quote in Minchin's poem
Are you trying saying the quote is misattributed? Because it's from Tim Minchin's comedy act/poem "Storm" [1]. [1] this video
