On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the required intelligence level.
Does this vindicate homeopathy ?
No, it vindicates the vaccination approach, the antigen-antibody approach. Or, more pedestrianly, simple learning. Those who learn to filter do so. Others drown. A central tenet of homeopathy is the bizarre and acausal notion that dilution of the agent by 100x, by 1000x, even by one billion times, makes no difference. "If there is just one atom of arsenic, maybe just one quarter of an atom, in this liquid, your body will learn to later tolerate arsenic!" --Tim May "That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau