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View Poll Results: What you think of homeopathy (and variations of it)?
It's quackery, no doubt. 24 68.57%
I'm not sure what to think of it, I'm uncertain. 5 14.29%
I believe in it being efficient even if we cannot explain it. 6 17.14%
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Old 07-01-10, 11:05 PM   #19
AngusJS
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It's just water.

The standard dilution for the homeopathic "treatment" for flu is 200C, i.e. a dilution of the "active" ingredient to one part per hundred, repeated 200 times. To quote the book Voodoo Science:

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That would result in a dilution of one molecule of the extract to every 10^400 molecules of water...But there are only 10^80 atoms in the entire universe. A dilution of 200C would go far, far beyond the dilution limit of the entire visible universe!
A homeopathic experiment using a common substance:



And what if homeopathy was used in emergency rooms?

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