This Week In "Terrible Ideas": Woman Dies From Live Bee Sting Acupuncture

(CNN) Once a month for two years, a 55-year-old woman in Madrid had gone for acupuncture therapy using live bee stings. Apitherapy -- the medicinal use of bee hive products, including honey, pollen and bee venom -- was the woman's go-to treatment for stress and contractures, a tightening of her muscles that caused stiff joints.

But one day, during her monthly session, the woman began to wheeze and find it difficult to breathe after the first live bee sting.

Suddenly, she lost consciousness.

After calling an ambulance, her worried acupuncturist administered methylprednisolone, a drug used to calm allergic reactions. Epinephrine, the usual treatment for extreme allergic reactions, was not available.

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Guys.

Guys.

How is this a thing? This is it: the dumbest example of humans getting too cocky that I’ve ever written about in this blog. Let’s just talk science for a second: bees are so dangerous. You can be allergic to bees, you can develop an allergy to bees at any time, and even if you’re not allergic they can kill you! Bees kill so, so, so many people. How dumb do you have to be to do this? 

Let’s talk not-science for a second: anybody who willingly subjects themselves to a bee sting is a fucking psychopath. To me that’s on the same level as burning ants or mutilating squirrels while mom isn’t looking. At that point you’re just injecting yourself with venom for the sake of feeling something, and calling it something fancy.

“Bee sting acupuncture” is 1. the douchiest thing of all time: was regular acupuncture not sufficient for your needs? 2. The grossest mislabeling of an activity of all time. Acupuncture is a science!  There’s method, reason, and technique to it. It requires training, and a knowledge of the body and its inner workings. These fucks are just putting bees on you and making them mad. They’re just stinging you. That’s so easy. Getting a bee to sting someone is the easiest thing in the world. It’s not impressive. I can do that in my sleep. I'm so sick at getting bees to sting me. I don’t know who these people are running this scheme but they’re a bunch of swindlers. You’re just taking something that involves stinging and calling it the same thing as something that involves needles! That’s stupid! That’s like calling branding, “metal tanning,” or drowning, “breathing swimming.” It’s dumb, so dumb, and I’m furious that anybody would allow this to exist.

Obviously it’s super sad that someone had to die to expose this idiotic trend that I refuse to call a trend. But you know how to really tell if someone’s an idiot? If they’re intentionally stinging you with bees and don’t have epinephrine. This is why the Peter Rabbit movie needed that allergy scene. Because apparently we’ve still got idiots out here who aren’t taking it seriously. That’s amateur hour stuff. Domhnall Gleeson please call me.