Back to the Venn; am I going blind or have they forgotten ‘astral travel’, ‘doppelgangers’, and ‘tulpas’.
You know, I was always aware that the world is full of irrational bollocks, but seeing it all in one place like this makes one realise just what a twonkish species we can be.

So, the owner of the house had this fellow in to paint, and one day he showed up having terrible difficulty, and it was readily apparent even to this linguist that his hand was broken in more than one place, and swollen so it was hardly recognizable, as well as intensely painful. Turned out that he’d had a fight with his girlfriend while drunk, and had punched a wall rather than her (had to applaud the choice in general, if not the alternative he chose).

The nurse and I urged him to take his badly-injured hand to the emergency department of our fine university hospital.

The “doctor” of homeopathy said “Wait here! I’ve got a salve that’ll be perfect for this!”

I’m guessing it was something into which some homeopathic remedy had been worked, probably powdered bone and excess lymph, if it followed their usual thinking.

While she was upstairs, we took the guy out to my car and drove him to the A&E / ER. She was very upset with us later, but we had some wine and laughed about it after she huffily stomped off to bed.

He came back the next day with a huge cast, lots of pain meds, and an x-ray showing his hand and fingers with a good dozen small and a couple of major breaks.

Fucking SALVES.

Anyway, yes, i could see anti-vax being in the also-religious section. I don’t know as I’d wear it as a shirt, though, because I tend to be little favouring confrontation personally, and I think there are few places one could go where it wouldn’t annoy someone. :)

Might hang it as a poster in a private room, though. :D

Back to the Venn; I think I’d move ‘Anti-Vaccination’ to the ‘pseudoscience/quackery/religious section, since there are certain religious sects that eschew anything but faith when it comes to medical matters.

It follows from the same thinking that says calling someone a cunt, or a pussy, or a dick, doesn’t just demean the person being labelled, but also the thing being used to label them.

Personally, I don’t call people by these kinds of name because I like cunts and pussies and dicks and bollockses, and I don’t think there’s anything negative about them to make it sensible to use them as insults.

I don’t necessarily expect anyone will agree, which is fine; I’m willing to take the long view on it. But since you mentioned it, yes, there are people who view this usage as unnecessarily demeaning of our beautiful human bodies. :)