Stop being intentionally obtuse. You were the one that said keeping a phone in rice works because "everyone agrees that it works". That's circular logic. He was using that same logic with the example of homeopathy because, much like your rice trick, the only support of homeopathy is that "everyone [who believes it] agrees that it works".
You're wrong. Stop trying to wash it away and just admit it.
You're wrong. Stop trying to wash it away and just admit it.