The practice of treating disease with substances causing similar symptoms but where the active ingredient is extremely diluted
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Can drinking "harmonized" water prevent sunburn
Osmosis Skin Care offers what they call "Harmonized H2O" This product is a UV Neutralizer-Tan Enhancing[sic]: Boost your body’s defenses with this innovative new technology utilizing frequencies that work against the damaging effects of the…
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Have four out of five systematic reviews concluded that homeopathy works?
In this article in the Guardian, Rachel Roberts claims that:
"Five major systematic reviews have also been carried out to analyse
the balance of evidence from RCTs [randomized controlled trials] of
homeopathy – four were positive (Kleijnen, J, et…
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Does water have a memory as claimed in homeopathy?
In homeopathic remedies the original substance is often diluted to a point where statistically there should be not a single molecule left of the original substance. The most common explanation by homeopaths, on how it still works although there is…
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Has most peer-reviewed research on homeopathy given positive results?
I was surprised by the following claim from NaturalNews:
Most clinical research conducted on homeopathic medicines that has been published in peer-review journals have shown positive clinical results
This goes against what I heard "It's always…
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Has homeopathy ever passed a double-blind study?
Has there ever been a double-blind study of homeopathy in which the null hypothesis was rejected?
I'm not looking for a blanket validation. Just a single study where the null hypothesis (that there is no difference between homeopathy and placebo)…
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Does homeopathic zinc (Zicam) help with the common cold?
I'm sick, and my friend had me buy store brand Zicam to help with it. Looking at the bottle after taking it, I thought the ingredients were written strangely. "Zincum Aceticum 2x", it says, when I would expect something more chemical sounding,…
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Has Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier found experimental evidence for homeopathy?
Every month I peruse magazines like Fate and Atlantis Rising, and over the last few month there's been a lot of self-congratulatory chatter about the fact that Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier has supposedly done experiments that show some of the…
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Is it possible to overdose on Homeopathic medicines?
How much Homeopathic medicines would be required (or considered) an overdose?
Every Homeopathic site claims the treatments are safe and have no side effects, it it even possible to overdose?
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How do sugar pills work according to homeopaths?
Sugar pill claims
The reasoning behind dilution, 'potentiation' and the memory of water is known to me, and there are several good arguments to be made against those 'theories'. But I can't really use them if somebody comes up to me with a sugar…
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Where can I find evidence for the prescientific-medicine-claims issued by James Randi?
There is a well known presentation given by James Randi about homeopathy. At one point in his talk, James Randi issues the claim that up into the victorian era, if you consulted a doctor you reduced your chances of survival because many of the…
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Did Gandhi support homeopathy?
Sites like this one claim Gandhi can be quoted to be in support of homeopathy:
Mahatma Gandhi
Homeopathy cures a greater percentage of cases than any other method of treatment. Homeopathy is the latest and refined method of treating patients…
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Did Hippocrates make a statement similar to "like cures like"?
A number of homeopathic websites include the quote, "By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like is cured," but not one of them gives a source for the quote, other than a vague claim that it comes from…
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Do extreme homeopathic dilutions still retain quantities of the starting materials?
This Indian Institute of Technology Bombay press release quotes some research papers which claims to prove that homeopathic remedies do retain original substances even when diluted.
The paper reports the fascinating observation that certain high…
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What is a Nosode?
Homeopathy literature likes to compare Nosode remedies with traditional vaccinations, does this have any validity?
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Does the "Belfast" study by Madeleine Ennis prove that water memory exists and homeopathy might work?
There has been a number of attempts to replicate Jacques Benveniste's results relating to the "water memory". Wikipedia lists many of them.
One of those attempts is the "Belfast study".
P. Belon, J. Cumps, M. Ennis, P. F. Mannaioni, M. Roberfroid,…
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