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| β | While the comic is funny on its own in a "{{rw|wake_up|Wake Up}}, {{rw|Sheeple}}" kind of way, the title text reveals that the comic is a parable about {{rw|homeopathy}}. The comic title is a play on {{rw|alternative_medicine|alternative medicine}}. | + | While the comic is funny on its own in a "{{rw|wake_up|Wake Up}}, {{rw|Sheeple}}" kind of way, the [[title text]] reveals that the comic is a parable about {{rw|homeopathy}}. The comic title is a play on {{rw|alternative_medicine|alternative medicine}}. |
In the comic, it is implied that [[Cueball]] has been scammed into buying blank books, though he attempts to defend it as a valid choice (ironically, he thinks that it is the other people who are being scammed, not he). The title text likens this to the {{w|CVS Pharmacy}} selling homeopathic pills using methods that does not clearly distinguish them from real pharmaceuticals. {{w|Homeopathy}} is a {{rw|pseudoscience}} based on the idea that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure that disease in sick people if administered in sufficiently small doses. It is possible that Cueball actually bought blank notebooks and is scamming himself into believing he made a valid and logical choice. | In the comic, it is implied that [[Cueball]] has been scammed into buying blank books, though he attempts to defend it as a valid choice (ironically, he thinks that it is the other people who are being scammed, not he). The title text likens this to the {{w|CVS Pharmacy}} selling homeopathic pills using methods that does not clearly distinguish them from real pharmaceuticals. {{w|Homeopathy}} is a {{rw|pseudoscience}} based on the idea that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure that disease in sick people if administered in sufficiently small doses. It is possible that Cueball actually bought blank notebooks and is scamming himself into believing he made a valid and logical choice. | ||
