alphaQuad wrote:
> Without going into detail, my understanding is that homeopathy has empirical
> (observed, experiential, pragmatic) impact on the body.

So do sugar pills. :-)

This guy, "Gary Null", seems to think there are a lot of "meta-studies" 
showing it works.
http://www.garynull.com/documents/articlesfromorgs/homeopathy_scientific_research.htm
I think it's likely that in the cases where it works, it's due to placebo 
effect or (most likely) selective reporting.

To be fair, there was one actual scientist who actually tried a homeopathic 
remedy on ameobas or something, and had it have statistically-significant 
effects, and asked for someone else to try to replicate it. Since I've been 
hearing this for years and never heard of any follow-up, I assume nobody 
could replicate it. (Maybe it's the one referenced in the "In Vitro Studies" 
I'm thinking of, in the next link below.)

Some interesting history: 
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Medicine/Homeop.html


Hmmm. Apparently there has been a fair amount of positive results on the 
research, tho. It's still rather strange tho. Smaller doses give better 
responses with a lot of drugs, but that doesn't mean no dose works best.

Then you read stuff like this
http://purehealthsystems.com/homeopathic-science.html
and he talks about "messages" being transfered as "signatures" from actual 
medicine into distilled water.  I.e., the very contact of the drug with 
water means all the water in the jar takes on the attributes of the drug.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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