Hilarious quote from a book on homeopathy

[semillama]

My wife read this on a board she frequents which is sort of her own skeptic/anti-woo place, and she bust out laughing. I had to share it here:

"On removing the water from the freezer, it will be observed that the block of ice, though now exposed to room temperature, will remain a block of ice for some time. Thus, there exists in water a property which enables it to "remember" for a certain amount of time that it has been kept in the freezer"

Paolo Bellavite, M.D. and Andrea Signorini, M.D., The Emerging Science of Homeopathy: Complexity, Biodynamics, and Nanopharmacology, 2002, pp.68-69 .

[TZ]

1. rofl

So I wonder about fog then? I only want to deal with fog that remebers being from clean water sources!
I hope that quote isn't from the "MD"'s. Thats just...pathetic.

[semillama]

2. I believe that quote is from the MDs. n/t

[chicagomd]

3. Please tell me

that is a joke.

Please?

[Warpy]

4. I'm sorry, it's not.

My own favorite was the baby and child care book that came out in the 70s that advocated a "natural" baby formula that contained an overdose of potassium.

[chicagomd]

22. Sounds wonderful,

My mother gave us a "better than Dr. Spock" book about raising kids, "updated for the new millennium", that advised us to put our newborns to sleep on their stomachs with some fluffy pillows around then to simulate the womb.

I thought is was a joke. Talk about an awkward Thanksgiving...

[madinmaryland]

5. there exists in water a property which enables it to "remember"

:wtf:

Water has a memory? Where did these jokers get their degrees? Bob jones university?

[trotsky]

7. That is the basic "principle "behind homeopathy.

That and "like cures like."

[madinmaryland]

8. Doesn't homeopathy actually rely on a placebo affect?

From what I understand, homeopaths actually dilute the original dose a doctor would prescribe to 1/1,000,000th of its original strength?

:shrug:

[trotsky]

9. You got it.

Some of the dilution factors used in homeopathic solutions are LESS than a drop of the real substance in all the earth's oceans. Because, as is plainly obvious, the potency of something INCREASES the more you dilute it! :crazy:

[trotsky]

6. And I thought I had read the dumbest things homeopathy has to offer.

What was it Einstein said? The two things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former? How right he was.

[Deep13]

10. "there exists in water a property which enables it to 'remember' ...it has been kept in the freezer"

That property is called "still being frozen."

[realisticphish]

12. but don't you SEE?

it's not in the FREEZER anymore! How can it be FROZEN?!

That's what I thought

[TZ]

13. I wonder

If the ice I scrape out of our -80 C freezer has better memory than the ice in the -20 C freezer. Seems to remember its ice a bit longer....:P

[Deep13]

14. Instant melting would mean instant transfer of heat.

I don't suppose anyone has ever explained to these damned fools that heat dissipation would have to travel faster than light for ice to melt instantly.

If they were right, clothes would not keep us warm, because heat would dissipate immediately, same with animal insulation, houses could not be kept warm, cars would not run because heat would dissipate from the engine so fast that the burning gases would not expand, and the atmosphere of the Earth would be frozen solid since any solar or geothermal heat would immediately radiate into space.

[realisticphish]

17. tuh

typical close-minded "skeptic" :eyes:

[trotsky]

23. No, no, you spelled that incorrectly.

It's "S"keptic. ;-)

[varkam]

11. You should totally post that to the health lounge.

:hide:

[Orrex]

15. I broke a glass about an hour ago

Amazingly, it still remembers being broken, even sixty minutes later.

I suspect that will never forget, in fact...

[semillama]

21. The real tragedy of homeopathy is this:

If homeopathy were real, I could simply fill up my empty beer bottle with water and poof! the remains of the beer in the bottle would transfer their memory of being beer to the water, and I would never run out of beer.

[progressoid]

16. Well, I can't argue with that logic.

Correction. I won't argue with that logic.

[moggie]

18. You know what's really amazing?

The molecules of water in the middle of the block always have the best memory (they remember for the longest), whereas those on the outside of the block are pretty forgetful. What are the chances of that?

[TZ]

19. Its the air!

It causes water alzheimers!! We have to fight agaisnt teh evul Oxygen. Big Atmosphere is out to get us all....

[onager]

20. My favorite quote on homeopathology...

Saw it on James Randi's site a long time ago.

The quote was from a leading "expert" in the field:

"We had to stop double-blind testing. It just doesn't work with homeopathic medicines."