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In reply to the discussion: Five things that modern science cannot explain: [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)31. Gees! Not the memory of water rubbish again.
Mark Crislip, infectious disease MD:
Homeopathy is the archetypal alternative medical beer goggles; it doesnt alter the reality of disease, just the perception of it.
Read about it here:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/homeopathy-ramblings/
Unlike many here, I have actually taken coursework in quantum theory. There is nothing in quantum theory that says that the coherence exhibited at the atomic level is extant at the macro level. Also, there is no plausible mechanism for anything that could be likened to "memory" can be attributed to anything happening at the atomic, let alone the molecular, level.
These people are using people's ignorance of what quantum theory is, along with its so-called mysterious effects, to foist patently pseudo-scientific rubbish on people.
Those who actually have an actual education in physics could tell anybody that memory of water is utter poppycock. That won't stop the same people from repeating it over and over and over again.
It's still moonshine.
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Actually there have been cases where the placebo effect helped people with cancer.
truedelphi
Dec 2013
#24
And what was the name of that physicist who said, back in 1898, or 1899, that
truedelphi
Jan 2014
#70
Thank you greatly. When I saw the depiction of the serpent that eats its own tail,
truedelphi
Jan 2014
#77
I went to a fire walking seminar once and at the end we all walked on hot red coals.
Maraya1969
Dec 2013
#51
It takes a special mindset by the person who is walking and if you do not have that
Maraya1969
Dec 2013
#54
After you do it I will believe you. Talk is easy and often filled with crap.
Maraya1969
Dec 2013
#59
I know. I wondering just how many people I'm going to have to put on ignore today.
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2013
#40
So you are saying that this endogenous retroviral insertion makes humans like primates.
truedelphi
Dec 2013
#57
Bull hockey. Biggest load o crap i have been subjected to in quite some time.
geckosfeet
Dec 2013
#38
I went to a rather small school and had already written a physics paper on all that.
truedelphi
Dec 2013
#56