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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Hormesis/Homeopathy
- In-Reply-To: <wiegand.724958904@lido16>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:52:29 GMT
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- >DATE: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:28:24 GMT
- >FROM: Robert Wiegand <wiegand@rtsg.mot.com>
- >
- >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.
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
- >motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
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- Just as it takes 2 Buddhists to change a light bulb, so too does it take
- 2 physicians to cure:
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- /666; ', jim tims
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- ;;|\..(( -C---->> One to cure, and one not to cure. And, as we know
- ;;| >- `.__),;; from the golf god, air is 10% trees.
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