Score a Big one for Science! "Homeopathy does not work."

[Darwin123]

How do you know that the sandwich never touch ham? That mere touch makes the sandwich extra hammy by being a dilution 100X of actual ham. Homeopathicly, you should be paying extra for all that additional hamminess.

In order to potentiate the remedy, the every dilution has to be followed by a percussion.

So the homeopath doesn't ham until he beats his meat

 

[abaddon]

In order to potentiate the remedy, the every dilution has to be followed by a percussion.

So the homeopath doesn't ham until he beats his meat

LOL You owe me a keyboard.

 

[abaddon]

A metaphor for what? A metaphor has to refer to something.

It seems obvious to me that 'pigs' would be a metaphor for Roman customs. Or maybe Greek customs. Since pigs were forbidden to the Hebrews, for whatever reason, the mention of pigs would immediately bring to mind the ruling nonHebrews whatever nation they came from. Since Jesus lived when Rome ruled Judea and Israel, then pigs refers to the Romans.

A Christian believer could extend this to his belief system, if he wanted to. Maybe there was a divine Jesus. He performed an real exorcism with a real man called Legion in which real pigs were drowned. However, He choses the details of his miracle. So maybe the Divine Jesus decided to off pigs as a metaphor.

The resistance to consider such possibilities may be pointing out some down to earth prejudice. The Christian may prefer to blame Jews rather than Romans. So he doesn't want to consider the idea that maybe the pigs were a metaphor for Romans.

Why ask me? It isn't my metapaphor.

 

[Mongrel]

I guess what I'm trying to say is, why is it that the manufacturers of Arnica 30C are not required to show that their product actually contains some Arnica?

(I know it doesn't, but the label implies otherwise)

In the UK, and I believe the same thing happened in the US, when the appropriate authority was set up to regulate drugs homeopathy was grandfathered in due to lobbying. Since the people who defined what homeopathy was were the practitioners, so the homeopathic materia medica was used for what is and what isn't a remedy.

Whilst your Arnica 30C should contain little more than sugar pilules that have had magically bashed water sprinkled on them, they have been created in the homeopathic tradition and are allowed to be labelled as such, evidence be damned.