Overdose on homeopathy

[Wanted Man]

http://www.1023.org.uk/

In February, people worldwide will stage a follow-up to an earlier protest, where people swallowed a whole bottle of homeopathic pills to prove that there is nothing in them.

:lol:

[Aurora]

This is madness! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperhydration

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

And, in a similar light, the same people can swallow a couple of litres of water to 'prove' that the placebo effect is a myth (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19904-placebos-can-work-even-when-you-know-theyre-fakes.html).:lol:

[Sasha]

i liked the snake venom action that disproved the homeopathy "water memory" bolloxs, they diluted snake venom to the same concentration homeopathic "medicine" is diluted and drank it, supresingly they did not die...


Homeopathic Suicide: Proving that Homeopathic Remedies are Quackery

Thursday October 12, 2006


When major health insurance companies in Belgium announced that they would start providing coverage for homeopathic care, skeptics were incensed. They argued that homeopathy is worthless, but the insurance companies insisted that since people liked homeopathy, that made it OK. So the skeptics announced that they would kill themselves via homeopathy. Luc Bonneux writes in the May-June, 2004 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer:
Seeing the errors of the skeptic’s ways, they resigned themselves to committing mass suicide by drinking a lethal dose of terribly toxic and dangerous drugs: snake poison, Belladonna or deadly nightshade, arsenic, dog’s milk, petrol, and cockroach. Dog’s milk does not sound that dangerous, but try milking a pit bull. To assure immediate death, these powerful drugs were immensely dynamized: the daring skeptics selected the over-the-counter 30C homeopathic solutions (reimbursed by the health insurance, if prescribed by a certified quack).

A dynamization of 30C means the poison is diluted [10.sup.60] times. That is a one followed by sixty zeros. The whole earth (estimated at [10.sup.50] molecules) is way too small to hold a single molecule in that dilution. That is, in homeopathic terms, an awfully powerful dilution. The immensely “dynamized” spirits of arsenic and snake poison (not to mention the pit bull milk) will rise from the liquid, and kill the skeptic on the spot. All important newspapers and TV stations were recruited to witness the terrible extermination of these dangerous minds. So, did it work? Hardly:
The skeptics on death row solemnly queued to personally select their own toxin: “In Flander’s fields the skeppies glow, to take their poison, row on row.” In front of the assembled national press they filled their chalices and drained their drinks, fully expecting to meet their Maker (if He existed). The skeptics didn’t succeed in their suicide attempt, however. All of them survived. It’s certainly great that all these skeptics managed to live; I wonder what the Belgian homeopaths were hoping for, though? If they were hoping that the skeptics would die, then they can’t be very moral individuals. If they were hoping that the skeptics would live, then they would be moral people but they were hoping that their own belief system was wrong. How many homeopaths dropped out and found other professions in the wake of this experiment? None, I suspect.

source:http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/10/12/homeopathic-suicide-proving-that-homeopathic-remedies-are-quackery.htm

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

So? Placebos don't kill either.