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I though homeopathy had been quite extensively tested. Am I wrong? There seems to be plenty of research going on.
I'm refering to the work of:
- Fritz Popp et al on molecular communication within the body via virtually instantaneous non-local transmission of molecule oscillating frequencies (carried by photons) in the zero point field.
-Benveniste and Northwestern University in Chicago on the signature frequencies of oscillating molecules in our bodies. These, it turns out, can be treated as audio frequencies, recorded, and then used in place of the real molecules to produce the same biological effect on the target material, in the complete and utter absence absence of the original molecules - even when the recording is sent as an email attachment to a laboratory on the other side of the world.)
Kunio Yasue on superradiance in water, the role of water molecules in organising discordant energy into coherent photons. (Popp’s system of communication for molecular oscillations).
D. Reilly on reproducible evidence for homeopathy
Bastide , Demangeat, Youbicier-Simo, Endler et al on high dilution biological effects.
Roberfroid, Ennis et al - who attempted (in labs across France , Belgium, Italy and Holland) to show Benviste's hypothesis regarding water’s tendency to be imprinted by the oscillating fields of molecules within it, colloquially known its 'memory', to be just bad science, and who concluded otherwise. (Ennis "The results compel me to suspend my disbelief and to start searching for rational explanations for our findings").
Double-blind, placebo-controlled trials on asthma, diarrhoea, heart disease, respitory tract sidease, etc. (Reilly, Jacobs, deKlerk, Bloomer, Masters et al) in which 81 of 104 trials showed positive results.
There’s loads of this stuff but I won't go on.
The research suggests that homeopathy works on the on the quantum mechanical ‘field’ level rather than the ‘higher’ emergent levels of chemistry or biology, western medicines or surgery. It has always been claimed to work at some deeeper level of our material structure than these.
It would seem that the above research, and a lot more like it, suggests that it is scientifically feasible that the signature oscillation patterns of certain molecules can be retained and carried by water in the absence of the molecule, and that this oscillation pattern can have the same quantum mechanical and thus biological effect on the body as the presence of the original molecule, but in its absence. It isn’t quite proved yet, but researchers seem to agree that it’s not just perfectly feasible, it’s a useful and scientifically attractive theory.
How did the founders of homeopathy ever come up with such a daft idea when they knew nothing about quantum mechanics, molecular oscillation, field theory and the like? On the face of it it’s a stupid idea, full of strange forces and, well, just plain water. But quantum mechanics hadn’t been invented, they were forced to cpme at it from a different angle.
Could it really be just nonsense, just a wild pre-scientific guess? Could it be just a piece of luck that to this day there’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for it actually working? Most types of quackery were rooted out long ago, but homeopathy still hangs in there.
I assume its founders just tried stuff out and watched what seemed to work. Not very scientific but what else could they do? Somehow they concluded that something was going on that we are only just now, with our state of the art micro-phsyics and cosmology, beginning to realise it isn’t a completely ridiculous conclusion after all, there is a possible mechanism, even if we haven’t yet managed to devise a repeatable scientific experiment to prove its medicinal properties.
Homeopathy has been inherently scientifically implausible since it began, yet despite this many perfectly intelligent people keep insisting that it works. Is it just coincidence that the circumstantial evidence is that it works, and that we have uncovered a plausible physically deterministic explanation of how it might works? The coincidence doesn’t add up to a proof, but I suspect a proof is on its way.
I got into it a bit because my son nearly died aged 8 months (pyloric stenosis) but instantly recovered after two doses of an homeopathic remedy. Could have been coincidence of course, but since then I’ve kept an eye out for relevant research.
Canute (without any axe to grind!)
