>> I find the notion that a medicine becomes stronger as it gets diluted a
>> rather strange one.
> 
> Especially when it's diluted to less than 1 part per *the entire 
> solution*.

I thought the idea is that "3 parts per million" means that if you had a 
million gallons of the stuff, it would contain 3 gallows of whatever? 
The fact that you have less than one gallon of the liquid doesn't mean 
there's nothing in it.

Having a liquid so dilute that the quantum nature of the atom becomes 
significant *does*, however...

> I think Darren had pointed to a couple of videos by James Randi about 
> homeopathy that talked about this crazy concept.

I did see a bit of Horizon where they took some Aspirin or something and 
diluted it to homeopathic levels, and then did a (small) double-blind 
randomised trial and found... about 0.02% difference between the two 
groups. In the wrong direction. But then, for the size of study they 
used, this is mere sampling noise.

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