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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 02:31 PM
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I hit 1,000 sick people with a hammer.
I hit 250 with a sledgehammer, 250 with a hand held hammer, 250 with a plastic hammer, and 250 with a paper cutout of a hammer.

The sick people who were treated with the sledgehammer did not fair very well at all.

The sick people who were treated with the hand held hammer faired batter than those who were treated with a sledgehammer, but still they still did not recover as well as I was hoping.

The sick people who were treated with the plastic hammer faired significantly better than those who were treated with the sledgehammer and the hand held hammer, but they did report a lot of agitation. I assume this agitation is from their illness.

The sick people who were treated with the paper cutout hammer faired the best of all. These people seemed the most healthy and the least agitated after their treatment.

Conclusion: Sick people will recover faster, and with less agitation, if treated with a paper cutout hammer. I am calling these hammers, homeopathic hammers. Now the real question is, how much should I sell homeopathic hammers for?
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 04:31 PM
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1. What were you treating them for?
Hammers in dilution will only really work if you were treating them for blunt-force trauma. Remember the law of similars.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:55 PM
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2. Your study is unconvincing
There are no links to an online store where I can buy your paper cutout hammers, therefore I doubt their efficacy. If you really believed in paper cutout hammers, you'd be selling them. Also, I didn't see this on HuffPo. How can it be true if HuffPo isn't promoting your paper cutout hammer store?
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 09:02 PM
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3. You need an additional group
who were hit with the idea of a hammer, after you looked at the hammer and then threw it away.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 01:12 PM
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4. $85 nt
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