KUMAR5:
Thanks. Well explained. However sorry, I feel, in this forum we can also base some Pseudoscience.
Pseudoscience, by definition, consists of ideas that are given a veneer of scientific credibility but which are, in fact, bunk. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience. Read the wikipedia article on it, if you haven't already done so.
If we dilute active substances in distilled water repeatedly, it is not contamination but is dilution.
Diluting "active substances" many times means that, at the end of the process we are left with zero active substance - just water. You don't seem to get that, for some reason.
Adsorption of active substances along with other molecules (as I indicated earlier) supersede such dilution calculation of no molecule remain present.
You're relying on your homopaths to be incompetent at cleaning their glassware. You hope that if they don't do it thoroughly, the odd molecule of your "active substance" might still be in the water after many dilutions.
I don't know how you think this helps you. What makes you think a single molecule, say, of some "active substance", hidden among billions upon billions of molecules of water, could possibly have any biologically significant therapeutic effect?
But let's just imagine that you're right, and a tiny number of molecules of your homeopathic remedy remain because the homeopath didn't follow the instructions of homeopathy correctly in preparing the "remedy". Then,
that remedy can obviously be tested in a controlled trial, like any other medicine, for efficacy.
These clinical trials
have been done, using homeopathic "remedies" prepared by regular homeopaths - who may very well be as incompetent at washing out their glassware as you need them to be. But in the scientific trials,
no therapeutic effect has been observed. Specifically, no homeopathic remedy has be found to perform better than a placebo.
What this means - in case you still don't understand what a placebo is - is that we can replace the "active substances" in your homeopathic remedy by something we know has no special therapeutic value - like replacing the homeopathic thing with tiny amounts of sugar, let's say, and we see
no difference between the homeopathic pseudo-medicine and the sugar water. In fact, we see no therapeutic difference between the "medicine" prepared by homeopaths according to homeopathic prescriptions, and "treatment" with
pure water.
This kind of study hasn't just be done once, but many times. All the scientific results agree: homeopathy is bunk.
Telling plain water as sweet water by sugr dissolved in it will neither make it sweet nor even one out of 100 who will taste it will confirm it. They will simply say you are lying. Not so?
I don't understand what you're saying, but it's probably one of two things:
1. You're saying people can't taste highly diluted sugar in water. That is correct. And the highly diluted sugar has no therapeutically significant effects on the body. Just like highly diluted homeopathic substances.
2. You're saying that people won't report water as tasting sweeter if they are told there is sugar in the water, when in fact there is no sugar at all. That is incorrect. If you don't believe me, try testing this with 100 people.
This is an example of suggestion, or the placebo effect. It is very well established in medicine.
That is a theory about how a homeopathic remedy might conceivably have an effect. However, this has been tested, and no effect has been observed, so the theoretical guess made by homeopaths turned out to be wrong. Who'd have thought it?
We should not underestimate modren well educated and well inflormed pwell spread people in millions.
Right. Nor should we underestimate the gullibility of people who believe in homeopathy.
In view of different nature of agents than modern medicines, these can not be studied at par to modern medicines.
Nonsense. A purported homeopathic drug is a drug like any other, and it can be studied scientifically in the same way. Do you think that homeopathic drugs are magical? They are chemical substances like any other.
In view of delicate, individual, long term and indirect effect from these agents effect from these can just be confirmed by interviewing people by visting homeopathic clinics who are using these since long time repeatedly.
Lacking any actual evidence, you guys always fall back on anecdotal evidence. This is the point at which you suddenly forget about the placebo effect, if you ever understood it in the first place.
The anecdotal evidence cannot be trusted, for many reasons. See if you can work out why, for yourself.