Liberals on homeopathy
AJ points to this ABC story in which Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan says:
The testing regime that's being used [for chemical contamination of water catchments] has difficulty in identifying chemicals at a homoeopathic level, down to the level where it slowly poisons you rather than taking a gut full of poison, which you're inclined to sick up.
(I'm not sure if the spelling error originated in Heffernan's statement or the ABC report.)
What is a homeopathic
level
,
anyhow? Homeopathy uses active substances,
repeatedly diluted by 1:10, 1:100 or 1:50,000 dilution dozens of times, for
a total dilution factor such as 1:10400. At
such astronomically high dilutions not a single molecule of the
substance will remain.
In other words, the testing regime Heffernan criticizes has difficulty identifying chemicals when not a single molecule is present in the whole state. What a shocking failure! Maybe we ought to bring in dowsers to check whether the vibrations of the chemicals are still present?
And the Liberals say the Greens are kooky...
posted Tue 28 Sep 2004 in /issues/politics | link
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