971: Alternative Literature Homeopathy is based on the idea that
a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy
people will cure that disease in sick people. This axiom is
known as "the law of similars" or "like cures like". In practice
this is more akin to in every lie there is a grain of truth,
because there is sometimes a smallest trace of something
helpful, but it has been so watered down it is considered mostly
a placebo. In theory this is exactly what you want, if the
problem is not truly a medical problem, you simply need to trick
the mind into believing it is better and it will make itself
better. The problem becomes visible when proponents of
homeopathy believe that drinking tea with special herbs in it
helps to fix a broken bone and other rubbish and what-not. In
this comic, the problem is homeopathic books. Someone has sold
Person Two a bunch of blank books, convincing him that these are
better than real books. Despite what he says in the last panel,
he is in fact a sucker because you