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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Hormesis/Homeopathy
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Dec17.173125.21260@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:28:24 GMT
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- kraus@.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Kraus) writes:
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- >>If they are, it's only because they don't want to overtreat you. You see,
- >>another principle of homeopathy is that the more dilutions, the stronger the
- >>effect. According to homeopathy, an 8% solution of anything should have
- >>virtually no effect at all.
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- >IF dilution strength is the key defining element to homeopathy, I have a
- >hard time believing in homeopathy, although I don't completely count it out.
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- I would put it stronger than this.
- After all air is the ultimate dilution. It contains traces of *everything*.
- So just breathing should cure you of *everything*.
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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