
One person I'd never believe is a naturopathic "doctor". Naturopathy is based on a bogus belief that a tiny amount of something that causes the same symptoms as a disease will cure or prevent it. The problem is, that the doses generally prescribed are physically impossible. For example a common dilution of the "medicine" is 10X or divided with water or alcohol 10:1, 10 times. The problem with this amount of dilution, is that the number of molecules gets in the way. In order to consume one molecule of the substance, you'd have to drink several thousand gallons of water. They also have another dilution of 100C, which is 100:1 100 times, which is even more impossible.
You might want to read "Voodoo Science" by Dr. Robert Park or "A Demon Haunted World", by Carl Sagan for further info.
I think the practice you are slagging is actually "homeopathy". Yes, microdoses sound downright improbable, but I have to say that I have seen it used successfully countless times over the last 30 years. Just because we don't understand something doesn't always mean it's bogus. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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