Comments on: Nano is the new nothing

By: Frank the SciencePunk

Frank the SciencePunk — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:37:01 +0000

Cheers, HJ - link is fixed.

By: HJ

HJ — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:09:37 +0000

Your link for DUllman m/h comes as an error, just fyi.

By: HJ

HJ — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:08:14 +0000

“Very Small Pharma being obviously better for you than Big Pharma”

Gold, absolute gold.

By: Danny Chrastina

Danny Chrastina — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:06:22 +0000

Regarding shaking, there are those who point to cavitation - the formation and collapse of tiny bubbles - as the mechanism by which something or other is supposed to happen. But you get cavitation when you open a tap a little bit. It makes that hissing sound. A kettle which is just about to boil also does it. So water going through a tap or valve somewhere is probably being succussed.

The Korsakovian dilution method just involves filling and emptying the same phial over and over again. See the “high potencies” section at Helios, or read about LM.

I get the impression that homeopaths behave as if somehow the homeopathic preparation is supposed to know which symptom the practitioner has in mind and not have any other effects, positive or negative, on anything else.

By: coracle

coracle — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:27:29 +0000

re washing kit, I think the argument is probably that Homeopathy is down to the shaking so washing with dirty (18 MOhm) water wouldn’t have any effect. Probably depends on the flavour of homeopathy that you favour though, Hahnemania vs Kentopathy may disagree.

On the other hand, wasn’t there something about if your supplies were running out, you could just rinse out your container for more supplies?

By: Frank the SciencePunk

Frank the SciencePunk — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:52:30 +0000

No freaking way! Homeopaths are insane. I don’t think I have blog space for that many zeroes. I thought a C was a .1 dilution and an X was a .01 dilution.

I knew all the numbers on this post would be wrong. Homeopathic mathematics is worse than calculus.

By: Danny Chrastina

Danny Chrastina — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:32:06 +0000

1C means 1 part per 100, or 1e-2. So 30C is actually 1e-60. “Pure” 18 megohm deionized water has impurities at the level of 30 parts per billion, which would be about 4C. See http://www.resysinc.com/QuestionAnswer.htm

By: manigen

manigen — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:14:59 +0000

Hang on, shouldn’t that be 0.00001%?

By: Frank the SciencePunk

Frank the SciencePunk — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:35:15 +0000

Whoops, yes, a systematic typo on my part, sorry!

There’s bound to be some more zeroes out place, 50pts for each you find.

I’d like to know how homeopaths wash their equipment.

I’ve actually been thinking about this one. Namely, the water they use to prepare a 30C solution is likely only to be pure to about 20C (that’s a wild guess, BTW). Certainly in homeopathic preparations, the contaminants are always present in the greater concentrations than the “active” ingredient.

By: Tony Finch

Tony Finch — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:18:04 +0000

I’d like to know how homeopaths wash their equipment.