Homeopathy: 200 years of scientific fraud, and counting.

[rubato]

Homeopathy 200 years of scientific fraud, and counting.

Superstition is much more durable than you would expect.

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4. HOMEOPATHY: FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF NATURE TAKE PRECEDENCE.
The Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament released a report
urging the government to withdraw funding and licensing of homeopathy. It
is unlikely to happen; even the Queen has her own personal homeopathist.
This year is the 200th anniversary of Samuel Hahnemann's "Organon of the
Medical Art." The prevailing philosophy of medicine at the time
was "vitalism,” the belief that life involves some spiritual
essence. "Medicinal energy," Hahneman wrote, "is most powerful when it
communicates nothing material." He was unaware of the extent to which he
achieved this ideal by sequentially diluting his medications. It would be
another 50 years before Loschmidt determined Avogadro’s number. It is now
clear that Hahnemann was many dilutions beyond the dilution limit. Last
week WN commented on the mistaken belief that cell phone radiation causes
cancer. The photon energy in the microwave region of the spectrum is only
about 1 millionth of the energy required to create a mutant strand of DNA,
which is the initiation of cancer. There is no need to go any further.
Epidemiology is expensive, time-consuming, and prone to statistical errors
and faulty recall.
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[Joe Guy]

Homeopathy is a pseudo-science of deception through the use of placebos.

There are people who will believe in anything if they are promised positive results regardless of how silly of an idea is being offered to them.