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Homeopathic claims

  • 24-05-2007 10:22am
    #1
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,023 ✭✭✭


    Any got an opinion on this:
    http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600

    this part here in particular:

    These "basophils" release histamine when the cells are under attack. Once released, the histamine stops them releasing any more. The study, replicated in four different labs, found that homeopathic solutions - so dilute that they probably didn't contain a single histamine molecule - worked just like histamine.


Comments

  • #2
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Full paper attached:


  • #3
    bonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Apparently (from some googling around), the only times this experiment has given positive results, Benveniste or one of his staff have been on the team involved.

    If they aren't involved, you get negative results. If they are involved you get positive results.

    Also, despite allegations that Ennis was a skeptic of homeopathy prior to her experiments, there doesn't appear to be any evidence of this.

    I remain skeptical.


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