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Tim Minchin: Storm

TheDamnWreckless · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Religion, belief & skepticismStand-up & sketch comedyLife sciences (other)

What it is

Tim Minchin performs his comedic beat poem 'Storm', a roughly nine-minute rant against homeopathy, alternative medicine and woolly thinking. It is delivered as a fast, rhyming monologue built around an encounter at a dinner party.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters link it as a funny, quotable takedown of alternative medicine and cite its lines (such as 'alternative medicine that works is called medicine') in threads on homeopathy.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “a rather hilarious 9 minute beat poem by Tim Minchin”

    Hilarious beat poem on alternative medicine versus medicine

    balabaster, 2016-11 · Recommendation · in “Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work, US gov orders”

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Topics: homeopathy, beat poem, skepticism, stand-up, science vs pseudoscience

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