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Originally Posted by alach11
"It would seem that science's belief that a substance can be diluted completely out of existence is incorrect."
Not diluted out of existence, diluted out of probability. It's just math.
1 gram of phosphorus (P) contains 1.947 * 10^22 molecules of phosphorus
10 grams of water (H2O) contain 3.348 * 10^23 molecules of water
So say your dosage is 2 grams and is diluted by 10 50 times.
You have a 2 in 10^27 chance of getting one molecule of phosphorus in your dose. Expressed without exponents that's about a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance of one molecule being in your dose. Your chances of being killed by lighting are 1 in 2,320,000.
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That is certainly the current scientific view. Unfortunately for science, the fact that homeopathy works throws this into question. Of course you are assuming that you need a molecule of original substance for the medicine to work, which might not be the case.
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Originally Posted by alach11
As for the websites, they're all citing the flu pandemic and one source.[1] I'm more interested in placebo controlled studies published in the last 10 years.[2] The vast majority that I looked at showed homeopathy to be only slightly more or less effective than a placebo, and much less effective than commonly prescribed medicine
Also, some of the authors of those articles actually profit off of homeopathy making them biased, as their income depends on people believing homeopathy works.[3]
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1. Look again - they refer to the 1831 cholera epidemic and the 1918 'flu epidemic. The aggregate statistical results for cholera treatment in Europe and America show that allopathic hospitals had a mortality rate of 40%, compared to 4% in homeopathic hospitals.
For the 1918 'flu - allopathic hospitals had a mortality rate of 30%, compared to <1% in homeopathic hospitals.
2. RDBPCT's can never be a true measure of homeopathy's efficay. They are designed to show the effect of pharmaceutical medicines.
3. If that is your reasoning you must also discount every single piece of scientific reaearch and clinical drug trial ever conducted by a pharmaceutical company in relation to a pharmaceutical medicne.
All these topics have recently been discussed at length here:
Which is more scientific: Allopathy or Homeopathy?
Why not join the discussion?