Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   (I suppose "dilluting makes the effect reverse" makes some kind of
> > sense... if you have the IQ of a 2-year-old, that is. I suppose the logic
> > might go something like: When you take the harmful element away by
> > dilluting, likewise the harmful *effect* goes away, and it takes away
> > the harmful effect in anything that it touches.)

> No, it's supposedly more like the vaccine mechanism. By taking the ghost of 
> the poison, your body overreacts and cures whatever has the same symptoms as 
> the poison.

  I bet that's just an explanation they came up with afterwards. The
2yo-level explanation sounds more plausible. ;)

> What I want to know is why people don't dilute placebos, then poison people 
> with it. The perfect murder weapon!

  Since homeopathic medicine is 100% natural, it can only have positive
effects, never negative, I suppose. (After all, synthetic = bad, natural =
good.)

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                                                          - Warp

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