Patrick Elliott wrote:
> One in which all "tested" remedies are replaced with hemeopathic and 
> "natural" ones, like this product:
> 
> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/06/finally_a_homeopathic_medicine.php 
> 

Homeopathic has been a synonym for snake oil to me for quite some time, 
about when it got popular. I started doing research, and come to find 
out, in most instances the "remedy" is so diluted that it can't possibly 
have any effect whatsoever. Of course, when your wife wants to put 
something that claims to contain Wolfsbane, and belladona in your baby's 
mouth, you tend to feel alarmed, until you realize that it's been 
diluted to concentrations less than 1:100000000000000000000000000 ...

(I hope that's enough zeros ...) one part per googol or something like 
that...

Zicam is different because it's packed full of tons of zinc.


-- 
~Mike

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