Maybe I'm Misunderstanding Woo... But... Wasn't There A Time When...

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199. This has nothing to do with whether someone is lying or not...

...it's about whether they are confusing cause and effect.

Look up "post hoc ergo prompter hoc", a common logical fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

There are many reasons you might take something, feel better, yet that thing you took has nothing to do with you getting better, or is nothing more than yet another form of placebo.

The "liquid" homeopathic "treatments" are mixed with is water. Nothing but water. This water is used to make incredibly tiny dilutions of supposed "active" ingredients, often so great a dilution that it becomes statistically unlikely that there remains even a single atom of the supposed active ingredient. Why this would be called a "treatment" at all is based on the totally unproven, in fact widely discredited and inconsistently applied, notion that water retains a "memory" of the stuff that has been dissolved in it.

If there's anything in a homeopathic preparation that isn't water or the highly diluted (perhaps non-existent) active ingredient, it's either no longer homeopathy, or it's a contaminated batch. None of your "maybe this, maybe that"s apply here.

Beside, what constitutes "REAL investigation" when a thing has been investigated repeatedly, found wanting repeatedly, but people still cling to it? Is the jury always out? Is the fact that people won't give it up always to be considered positive evidence?