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The dishonest disinformation dozen Social Share EDITOR: What are the origins of the Anti-vax movement and those false claims you have been receiving? Part of the origins lie in the different ways doctors are trained and Social Media as a new medium of communication of knowledge or disinformation. Homeopathy is a medical system based on the belief that the body can cure itself. Homeopaths use tiny amounts of natural substances, like plants and minerals which they believe stimulate the healing process. Starting in Germany in the 1700’s, it is common in Europe but not so popular in the USA. It believes in “like cures like” where homeopathic doctors weaken their ingredients by adding water or alcohol. Then they shake the mixture vigorously, as part of a process called “potentization” which they believe transfers the healing essence and that the lower the dose, the more powerful the medicine. Another medicine art form, Osterpathic Medicine (DOs), licenced in 85 countries, was started by Andrew Taylor Still, in the 1800’s and initially involved the manipulation of joints and bones to achieve treatments.