{"id":198,"date":"2006-06-26T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T09:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/06\/26\/indie-rock-and-homeopathy\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T09:32:40","slug":"indie-rock-and-homeopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/indie-rock-and-homeopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Rock and Homeopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/questionablecontent.net\/view.php?comic=126\">This comic strip<\/a> reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepdic.com\/homeo.html\">homeopathy<\/a>: just as homeopathic medicines are supposedly most effective when they&#8217;re infinitely diluted, indie bands are most credible when they&#8217;re infinitely unknown.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the two subjects, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionablecontent.net\/\">Questionable Content<\/a> has become one of my favourite comic strips, and I strongly recommend you go read it right from the beginning. And where homeopathy is concerned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk\/dawkins\/writings\/snakeoil.shtml\">this article<\/a> by Professor Richard Dawkins is excellent reading. Of course I recommend you read that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comic strip reminds me of homeopathy: just as homeopathic medicines are supposedly most effective when they&#8217;re infinitely diluted, indie bands are most credible when they&#8217;re infinitely unknown. While we&#8217;re on the two subjects, Questionable Content has become one of my favourite comic strips, and I strongly recommend you go read it right from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies-and-music","category-charlatans","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-3c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}