Sorry if anyone is offended, but Cecil has just confirmed my already firmly-held conviction that homeopathy and snake-oil are equivalent commodities.
--Baloo
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But before I took a hemeopathic medicine, I could only use 10% of my brain. Since taking this oil of primrose, I know use all of it, and have the ability to tell that a TV's on just by looking at it. Plus, my arm has grown back.
------------------ "Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be." Sol System
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One of the explanations I've read for homeopathic "cures" is that water [with no trace of medicine] 'remembers' when it was part of water *with* medicine.
Okay, water remembers. Here's my $ 19.95 plus shipping & handling.
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Wow, I didn't realize they made homeopathic Viagra!
*Ducks and runs* :P
------------------ Dane
"Mathematicians have long held that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards would eventually reproduce the collected wisdom of the human race. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Silensky
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CC: Y'know, just because yout take something and then get better, there isn't automatically a causal relationship between the two. If you have a cold, and you stand on your head for a week, and then you get better, it doesn't mean you can cure a cold by standing on your head. :-)
------------------ Homer: "I can see what's happening. They did it to Jesus, and now they're doing it to me." Marge: "Are you comparing yourself to our lord?!" Homer: "Well, in bowling ability..." -The Simpsons
Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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I'm not gonna get into this debate because I still don't understand what exactly the stuff was, but I assure you, it *DID* work. Immediately. And not for an illness. And not for that either, Dane. *whacks upside the head*
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Never underestimate the power... of suggestion.
For example... think of a lage white horse, its mane flowing in the breeze as it gallops towards you....
See? You did!
------------------ Monty: "With every drink of that pint more of his cognitive functions atrophy!!" Classmate: "Wha? What does that mean?" Monty: "Which word?" Classmate: "Any of 'em!"
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According to a number of reliable studies, the placebo effect alone is 40% more effective than doing nothing at all.
What this means is that if you think you're doing something that will help, it will! (Help, that is. If you've got a severed artery, get a tourniquet and a doctor, in that order.) Conversely, even the best treatment will be much less effective if you believe it won't do much good. The power of suggestion works very well in either direction.
--Baloo
------------------ "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonalds's makes you a hamburger." --[Source unknown.] http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/
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Am I the only one who sees this account as evidence of tampering with the timeline? Charles, you didn't happen to see a "weather balloon" crash or something like that just before all this took place, did you?
------------------ Dane
"Mathematicians have long held that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards would eventually reproduce the collected wisdom of the human race. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Silensky
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"Baloon", eh? Would that be the Esperanto accusative form of "Baloo"? :-)
------------------ Homer: "I can see what's happening. They did it to Jesus, and now they're doing it to me." Marge: "Are you comparing yourself to our lord?!" Homer: "Well, in bowling ability..." -The Simpsons
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