This week, Ontario become the first province to regulate homeopathy. It’s a controversial step – what with homeopathy being completely bogus.
In fact, the core principles of homeopathy – namely, that infinitesimal amounts of something that may cause symptoms similar to those a patient is experiencing will make that patient well; that diluting that infinitesimal amount will make it stronger; and that shaking it a lot will make it stronger still – are fundamentally ridiculous.
Don’t believe me? Give your newspaper a good shake. Then give it a thump against the palm of your hand.
Good work. Good shaking there, Globe readers.
This, if the science behind homeopathy is sound, should make my column 100-per-cent more compelling. If it didn’t work, my point is proved; homeopathy is nonsense.
If it did work, my postshake column should be so convincing that when I tell you that, as far as anyone qualified can discern, homeopathy has absolutely no capacity to heal anything, you will believe me anyway – because, shaking!
