I can't understand why otherwise reasonable, educated people fall for homeopathic quackery [View all]

[Taverner]

Has anyone ever read on how homeopathic "medicine" works? Hair of the dog, then diluted to the point where there is no hair nor dog left, and then given to "cure" the ailment. Essentially, the idea is that water is to retain a "memory" of the hair of the dog. But water is a simple recipe: Hydrogen, two parts oxygen. Nothing about memory there, just a bunch of electrons, protons and nucleuses doing their thing.

Studies show homeopathic "medicine" is quackery, common sense shows homeopathic "medicine" as quackery and if it worked so well, why hasn't it cured a single person?

CAVEAT: I am not lumping homeopathy with herbal remedies. Herbal remedies can be helpful, albeit a bit like gambling. You never know how much of the active ingredient is in the remedy. More established herbalists can quantify these things, but this doesn't always happen.