I wonder if anyone can help me. I am having a argument with my husband over homeopathy. He has come up with the following evidence which basically says that homeopathy doesn't work. I'm not sure how to respond. Is he right? What I find most difficult is that he finds scientific evidence where as any info I have as from some unknown source (or unscientific)Does anyone have some scientific evidence that homeopathy is genuine?
Lisa
The following is what he emailed to me from work (we don't discuss it verbally anymore):
"It clearly explains scientifically without a shadow of a doubt how homeopathic remedies can only be placebos. For example. (A 30X dilution means that the original substance has been diluted
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times!) this is so minute and microscopic it's like saying if you put a red drop of water in a mass of
water 50,000 times the size of the earth, that all that mass of water will turn red. That's impossible as the red molecules in the single drop are only a few molecules and can not cover 50,000 times the earth's mass in water and can only affect a limited microscopic amount of molecules. So the few molecules in a remedy you take, if even any are left after the dilution are actually more minute than a few dust particles on the surface of the remedy pill itself! How can something that minute that barely exists do anything? It's simply not possible. It sounds like people are paying billions of dollars a year for placebos which I think is wrong. Some dilutions are
"1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water". Do you have any idea how insignificant that is? Homeopathy is a billion dollar industry so I wouldn't expect them to come out and explain this to people. Advocates say these molecule sized dilutions spread throughout the entire body and causes a response. This is easily disproven because we ingest billions of particles that same size that we come into contact with daily, why is a particle from a remedy different than any other billions of particles we ingest? Why is it
magical?
http://www.quackwatch.com/01Quackery...ics/homeo.html
Ok, so homeopaths actually admit that none of the real substance is left in the medication after the dilution. That it's somehow 'imprinted' itself onto the other molecules and leaves it's memory there. Unfortunately that's not possible. Those molecules can be observed 1 by one under an electron microscope and a molecule is a molecule,, it doesn't have memories
of everything it comes into contact with. Maybe something like that was believable in the 1700's, but now??? "The dilutions were extreme. Hahnemann was not bothered by the fact that at
high dilutions, none of the original substance remained. He claimed that the power of the curative solution did not come from the presence of an active ingredient but from the fact that the original substance had, in some way, imprinted itself on the solution. In other words, the water in the diluting solution somehow "remembered" the material that had been
dissolved in it several dilutions back. This imprinting process had to be carried out very carefully; a simple dilution of the solution was not enough. The vial had to be struck against a special leather pillow a fixed number of times in order to be "dynamized."
Royal London Homeopathy Hospital's comment on homeopathic vaccination...
"the position of the Faculty of Homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopoathy Hospital on immunisation is very simple and encapsulated well in the
following statement by it's president Dr DS Spence: "When there is no medical contradication, immunisation should be carried out in the normal
way using conventional tested and approved vaccines". Dr Spence then goes on to say "...we do not have the research data showing the persistence of satisfactory antibody levels after using homeopathic preparations for immunisation , and this is why the advice is to use 'conventional' vaccines if at all possible"
no single piece of evidence has ever shown it does a single thing to the human body. The homeopathic vaccines you speak of are not traditional homeopathic treatments. A homeopath said this and also said to stay away from them.there is even a 2.5 million dollar reward for anyone that can prove the human body reacts to a homeopathic remedy. To this day the reward has never been claimed because no homeopathic remedy has ever caused a visible or measurable reaction in the human body. It's a placebo effect and some evil companies are making billions selling it. You think drug companies
are bad? Atleast they spend billions in research, studies, and testing. Homepathic companies make billions but spend no money on research,, ask therich homeopathic CEO's why they fund no comprehensive scientific studies,,
they have the money to but don't need to,, people buy it on faith and their companies proving it's a placebo would make them go out of business. They are laughing all the way to the bank. They are actually worse than the drug companies. And the icing on the cake is, if a remedy doesn't work,then it must have been antidoted by something in the environment."