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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E

Name: That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E
Description: A That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch in which a hospital A&E is staffed by homeopaths who dilute everything, leaving patients with nothing.

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2015–2026, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Used as a punchline in threads about snake oil, bogus tests and startup fraud, rather than recommended as such.

A That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch in which a hospital A&E is staffed by homeopaths who dilute everything, leaving patients with nothing.

3 jokes · Comedy

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3 Hacker News comments

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@jamiesoncj Feb 2015 Makes a joke

on HN thread Building Microservices the Lean Way, part 2

Oh right. I didn't get it. I thought tech homeopathy was some new framework / library / approach I hadn't heard about. Maybe homeopathy.js or similar? On the plus side, your comment did make me re-watch this: [this video]

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@wstrange Apr 2016 Makes a joke

on HN thread Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S

> blood constituents are not evenly distributed at small volumes Clearly they should have diluted the samples further. [this video]

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@Terr_ Apr 2026 Makes a joke

on HN thread The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

In the sense of extreme understatement , yes, which is amusing since the "heavy lifting" is the other way around. Much like "The snake-oil suspicions looming over colored quartz and homeopathic water." [0] [0] [this video]

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