How you can tell a Health Food Store is bullshit.

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Greg
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Weetabix wrote: If he had diluted his cocaine the way he diluted his medicines, he might still be around.
You haven't completely won the Internet, but you're up on points.

Nice quote on homeopathy, sums it up well. Hard to imagine anyone with a more-than-passing acquaintance with reality being receptive to those two foundation principles. But there was a lot of crazy in the air on the Continent around that time.....
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Weetabix wrote: Interestingly from the NIH:
The alternative medical system of homeopathy was developed in Germany ... Many homeopathic remedies are so diluted that no molecules of the original substance remain.
Denis wrote:I am a huge fan of homeopathy - whoever realised that he could charge exorbitant sums of money for pills and drops that don't contain a single molecule of any active ingedient whatsoever and call it "medicine" was a marketing genius. Wasn't that a German?
Funny echo in here, no? :-)
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WHAT?...What?...what?...what?

Not an echo: 0<1 :P
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
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