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It's homeopathy week

The British Homeopathic Association are promoting a Homeopathy Awareness Week.

Which is odd as surely that's the last thing they want?

You'd have thought the fact that the 'therapy' that they promote is completely ineffective, other than that due to the placebo effect, would be a matter of considerable shame rather that something to deliberately parade around?

For those unaware of the rather outlandish theory; homeopathy consists of water with an 'active' ingredient so diluted that there is no longer *any trace at all* left in the final treatment. However, homeopathists believe, in the face of a complete absence of evidence, that the water has a 'memory' of its exposure to the 'active' ingredient and it's this that triggers the bodies 'healing mechanism'.

Homeopathists can not explain why

a) What water is so pure that it has no 'memory' of every other substance it has come into contact with?

b) How this memory is so selective? And please don't try and tell me it's the precise method of shaking!

c) Why the body's immune system does not respond to the actual illness but rather to an infitessimal/non-existent trace of something that creates 'similar' symptoms?

d) Why they believe in a theory that sounds so completely implausable that is not backed up with any evidence whatsoever?

Honestly, talk about a load of nonsense. Crazy theory, no evidence. Why do people believe in this junk....