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4 Sep 2024 21:21:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why homeopathy can be dangerous  
From: Warp
Date: 26 Mar 2010 06:08:23
Message: <4bac8797@news.povray.org>
scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  Suppose you have 30 containers with 0.9 liters of water in each (totaling
> > 27 liters). Put 0.1 liters into the first container, then take 0.1 liters
> > from this solution, put it in the second container, then take 0.1 liters 
> > of
> > this solution, put it in the third container, and so on.

> Where do you get 27 liters of water from that doesn't have a single molecule 
> in it of the thing you are trying to dilute?

> Better hope nobody has already tried it and thrown away the 10% solution 
> into the sea :-)

  I'm sure homeopaths will argue something like the solution specifically
needing to be performed by "succussion" or else there will be no effect.
(Don't bother asking for the physical or chemical explanation for this.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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