From: Noah Horton (nhorton@ectropic.org)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 13:20:00 MDT
True enough that this will probably not work for non-living poisons, but
it is amusingly similar to the idea of inoculations against bacterial
diseases.
-Noah Horton
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From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:05 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Homeopathy was RE: Tangent: Koran Quotes
Cory Przybyla wrote:
> and in fact when you say homeopathy is *complete*
> fraud, are you entirely denying that eating certain
> herbs can in effect help boost the immune system as in
> eating healthy always can? Or just the more fanatical
> aspects of it?
### Actually, homeopathy is not about eating herbs - it's a doctrine
based
on the theories of Paracelsus, that a poison which causes certain
symptoms
will prevent the same symptoms if taken in a very small dose. In
practice,
homeopathy means taking a drop of an active substance (e.g strychnine),
diluting it in a pail of water, then taking a drop and again diluting in
a
pail of water...etc., then using the resulting "medicine" to treat any
condition that resembles symptomatically the effects of, in this
example,
strychnine poisoning. By the time the dilution is done, the number of
active
ingredient molecules in the preparation could be probably counted by
hand
(if you could pick them out with an atomic force microscope).
Homeopathy is 100% pure bunk.
Did I mention that while shaking the dilution you are supposed to keep
the
vessel properly oriented to the Earth's magnetic field?
Rafal
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