Originally posted by Bardock42THen check out my episode 3 to relive it!... Yay for plugging myself!
Mystical Ninja was the very, very best game on the Super Nintendo. It is perhaps still the best game ever.And I spent hours playing the lottery and doing other fun stuff at the carnival.
Originally posted by §P0oONY
THen check out my episode 3 to relive it!... Yay for plugging myself!
I played it through co-op on an emulator last year. It was epic.
Originally posted by dadudemonYou're wrong... Homeopathy uses water... Just water...
Yeah, it is.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#Medical_and_scientific_analysis
Though a better source for homeopathic remedies probably exists on a place other than wiki. I'm just too damn lazy to find it.
Anyway, this is what I said:
So, what you said about isn't wrong...but the part where you disagree with me is definitely wrong. 🙂 (Unless, of course, you were only referring to the "snake oil" portion. In which case, I would agree. However, my "snake oil" comment was a reference to homeopathy being a reference to quackery, not to snake oil being actual an homeopathic remedy.)
From the Same Wikipedia page...
The extremely high dilutions in homeopathy have been a main point of criticism. Homeopathic remedies are usually diluted to the point where there are no molecules from the original solution left in a dose of the final remedy.[97] Homeopaths believe that the methodical dilution of a substance, beginning with a 10% or lower solution and working downwards, with shaking after each dilution, produces a therapeutically active "remedy", in contrast to therapeutically inert water. Since even the longest-lived noncovalent structures in liquid water at room temperature are only stable for a few picoseconds,[104] critics have concluded that any effect that might have been present from the original substance can no longer exist.[105] No evidence of stable clusters of water molecules was found when homeopathic remedies were studied using NMR.[106]
Furthermore, since water will have been in contact with millions of different substances throughout its history, critics point out that water is therefore an extreme dilution of almost any conceivable substance. By drinking water one would, according to this interpretation, receive treatment for every imaginable condition.[107]
Practitioners of homeopathy contend that higher dilutions produce stronger medicinal effects. This idea is inconsistent with the observed dose-response relationships of conventional drugs, where the effects are dependent on the concentration of the active ingredient in the body.[98] This dose-response relationship has been confirmed in multitudinous experiments on organisms as diverse as nematodes,[108] rats,[109] and humans.[110]
Physicist Robert L. Park, former executive director of the American Physical Society, has noted that
“ since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth.[99] ”
Park has also noted that "to expect to get even one molecule of the 'medicinal' substance allegedly present in 30X pills, it would be necessary to take some two billion of them, which would total about a thousand tons of lactose plus whatever impurities the lactose contained".
The laws of chemistry state that there is a limit to the dilution that can be made without losing the original substance altogether.[23] This limit, which is related to Avogadro's number, is roughly equal to homeopathic potencies of 12C or 24X (1 part in 1024).[68][99][111]
Scientific tests run by both the BBC's Horizon and ABC's 20/20 programs were unable to differentiate homeopathic dilutions from water, even when using tests suggested by homeopaths themselves.[56][112]
Originally posted by §P0oONY
You're wrong... Homeopathy uses water... Just water...From the Same Wikipedia page...
Hahaha...it's amazing isn't it?...As Ben Goldacre says in his book it's the equivalent of 1 molecule of the substance in a sphere of water with a diameter the size of the distance between the earth and the sun.
Originally posted by jaden101
Hahaha...it's amazing isn't it?...As Ben Goldacre says in his book it's the equivalent of 1 molecule of the substance in a sphere of water with a diameter the size of the distance between the earth and the sun.
Wait, so you guys are lying.
There's a 1 in 62.381.333.330.000.000.000.000 chance that there is some of the substance in a liter of water.
Man, can't even ****ing trust the peoples on the internet anymore. disgust
Originally posted by Robtard
Know of a guy who teaches classes on the healing properties.Basically by holding crystals a certain way and making certain hand movements over the body with said crystals, the crystal's "energies" transfer over into healing energies and all manners of ailments can be cured.
Just sharing.
Ask him to explain how it works sometime. Post it here.
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Originally posted by Robtard
Know of a guy who teaches classes on the healing properties.Basically by holding crystals a certain way and making certain hand movements over the body with said crystals, the crystal's "energies" transfer over into healing energies and all manners of ailments can be cured.
Just sharing.
Kick him violently in the face over and over again and see if he doesn't abandon his crystals for hospital treatment.
That's the true test of these people. If they have some horrific injury or virulent disease see if they don't go to hospital to get proper medical treatment.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Some forms of this medicine work, in some cases faster and better than modern "brute force medicine". Because instead of just getting rid of the symtoms or the pain, they get the to the core of the ailment.I speak from experience, not only mine🙂
Well the overwhelming body of evidence and huge numbers of credible studies and meta analysis says you're wrong.
None of the studies which concluded in favour of homeopathic medicines had double blind controls to make them credible. In most cases they didn't even compare them to a placebo or had a statistically valid number of test subjects.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Some forms of this medicine work, in some cases faster and better than modern "brute force medicine". Because instead of just getting rid of the symtoms or the pain, they get the to the core of the ailment.I speak from experience, not only mine🙂