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[wrong1]

Have to admit I didn't know much about homeopathic medicines before.
I've actually seen these on sale in Boots and other chemists.

What a ridiculous scam!

I love the vey logical:

High dilutionsThe extremely high dilutions in homeopathy have been a main point of criticism. Homeopaths believe that the methodical dilution of a substance, beginning

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[wrong1]

Crivens!

From reading the entire article, it would appear that Rescue Remedy may be a bundle of tosh too!

I pretty much swear by that stuff and now it seems that it's entirely placebo effect!

[wrong1]

Yeah, I've read some studies about the placebo effect, including one by an Italian guy who treated a terminally ill person with morphine, then replaced blind with saline and the guy was still comfortable, then blindly introduced an opiate blocker and the guy's pain came back, which seemed to point towards the notion that the guy's pain was being mediated either by opiates he was synthesising himself or something else interacting with his opiate receptors

[glummdead]

Interesting stuff. I had read a bit about Homeopathy while I was studying for my psych degree. I agree that on the one hand it appears to be all tosh, but on the other hand some doctors seem to consider it has some therapeutic value. Though I suppose claiming to have a psychology degree puts me in the same camp as the mumbo jumbo mumblers :)