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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: homeopaty... NBC's dateline
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:30:46 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Dec8.200023.28457@walter.bellcore.com> <6657@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Dec10.172102.6968@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <Bz2MyD.Fqq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,<1992Dec14.165647.1043@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec14.165647.1043@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, kraus@.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Kraus) writes:
- >It seems to me that the more important idea to focus on is the way in which
- >a homeopathic substance theoretically remedies an ailment. If the substance
- >irritates the body into defending itself, and thus indirectly attacking
- >the ailment, the dilution strength should only be considered when insuring
- >that the substance is weak enough not to cause the patient problems. It
- >seems that dilution strengths would vary widely depending on the substance.
-
- Er, Dave? If the patient is ALREADY ill, don't you think that the illness
- itself would have a better chance of "irritat[ing] the body into defending
- itself" than perhaps a few molecules known to cause "similar" symptoms if
- ingested in massive doses?
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