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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (156982)7/2/2001 12:32:27 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
This is really quite absurd, my friend and I marvel you don’t see the ridiculousness of it.

Firstly, I don’t know much about homeopathic medicine, though I know of it generally, and so your attempts to link me to homeopathy are futile.

Secondly, I don’t give much of a rip about what scientists say about anything. These folks are constantly telling us one thing or other, ever changing their notions of what is healthy and what is not. Quite frankly, I’ve long dismissed the lot of them and only read them for ideas. I figure with a world full of scientists stumbling blindly in the dark making numerous pronouncements, a few of them have to stumble upon something worthwhile every now and then. So I read them, but with a grain of salt. Even here, where the physical world is concerned, I care only for empirical fact. If scientists can show these convincingly, then I will accept them. If they cannot, but only say or speculate on what is and what is not, then, unlike many so called “educated people” who really are nothing more than intellectual twits, I will not accept them. Therefore I am most unconcerned with a group of pinheads with axes to grind in England or anywhere else, who wish to proclaim that eating eggs is bad for you, or good for you, or that eating fish is bad for you or good for you, or that drinking and showering in toxic water is not proven to be harmful (wry smile).

Thirdly, were my aim to introduce a small amount of toxin into my water for medicinal purposes, then you’d have something of a point. I would be engaging in something like homeopathic medicine. But of course I do no such thing. Indeed I do exactly the opposite. My aim is to remove all toxins from the water, not for medicinal purposes, but to avoid such purposes. Here is the truth of the thing: Homeopathic medicine is what you practice when you drink and shower in unfiltered water. (hehe)



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (156982)7/2/2001 6:22:53 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
JF,

I have found Homeopathy to be quite effective.

Scumbria



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (156982)7/3/2001 5:55:44 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
There is a group in England I think called the National Skeptics Association that a few years ago chose as their annual project attempting to "overdose" on homeopathic medicine. They of course concluded they could not. I found it all very amusing.
Actually, it is possible, although will not have quite the effect they intend. Excessive water intake can result in cerebral edema and death.