Study: Homeopathy not effective in treating anything

[jmowreader]

75. The "hoax" is the theory that homeopathy is anything but a placebo

The most popular homeopathic preparation in the US is Oscillococcinum. It's made in France by the Boiron Company and is sold to relieve flu symptoms.

Its active ingredient is "Anas Barbariae Hepatis et Cordis Extractum 200CK HPUS 1x10^400 g."

How this is made:

Step 1: Buy one live Muscovy duck (per year!) and kill it. Dress it out and extract the heart and liver. (I assume they then eat the rest of the duck - duck is pretty good and there's nothing wrong with the rest of it.)

Step 2: Mix pancreatic juice and glucose, and pour it into a one-liter bottle. Add 35 grams of duck liver and 15 grams of duck heart. Seal the bottle and stick it on the shelf for 40 full days.

Step 3: Measure out 10 ml of this mixture and pour it into a container. Add water to make 1 liter. Close the container tightly and thump the hell out of it against the tabletop, a process called succussion. This is a 1C dilution.

Step 4: Dump the entire contents of the bottle down the drain, add 1 liter of water, close the container and thump the hell out of it in exactly the same way you did before. You now have a "2C Korsakovian Dilution." Korsakov is revered in homeopathy for his discovery that one percent of the volume of the container would stick to the walls after you dumped it out. This makes creating high dilutions very efficient - imagine having to measure out exactly 10cc of solution three hundred times in one day.

Step 5: Repeat step 4 until you have a 200C Korsakovian dilution.

Step 6: Put one drop of this...water, since that's all that could possibly be in it - the dilution is roughly equivalent to putting a thousandth of a drop of red food coloring in the ocean at the Port of Los Angeles and expecting to find that same food coloring in water at the Port of Shanghai - on a sugar pill, put the pill in a bottle, and sell it to someone for a lot of money.

If you can explain how this could do ANYTHING for you, please do.