Homoeopathy New Scientist

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

"Finrod" 12/01/01 04:37AM Wrote

Dear Sceptics

Have you by any chance seen the article published in The New Scientist - 10
Nov 2001 pages 4-5?
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From:
Thomas J. Wheeler, Ph.D. tjwheeler@louisville.edu
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Alternative medicine reading list:
http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/bio ... med/Syllab
us.htm
Yes, we have discussed this article on the Healthfraud list. The findings
lend absolutely no support to homeopathy. See:

http://www.homeowatch.org/research/molecules.html

Note the quote from one of the authors of the research:

As you stated correctly, the word homeopathy is not mentioned in the
original paper and the study itself has
nothing to do with it. It only states that on dilution (up to mM conc.) of a
number of substances in water, an
increase of particle size was observed. It was a laboratory study --
everything beyond that is speculation at this
point. What journalists make out of our publication is beyond our control.

(By the way, the New Scientist article can be read at:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991532