Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:47:50 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Perhaps, but it's a technique used in medical circles as well.
>> Not quite.
>>
>>> Immunotherapy is based on the same basic principle:  You inject someone
>>> with small doses of what they're allergic to,
>> Different principle. In homeopathy, you inject people with small doses
>> of distilled water that at one time was near some molecules of what you
>> were allergic to, and the ghosts of those molecules stimulate you to do
>> your thing.
> 
> Basically it's a similar principle, though.

Except for the part about ghosts.

Faith healing and antibiotics are the same thing too, except for the part 
about the germ theory of disease. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
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   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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