Homeopathy is the scam - and here is why
Short answer - because I can wash my dishes...
My scientific work started in 2010, with the fluorescence spectroscopy. I continued to use EPR spectroscopy and FTIR. I also hang out with NMR/MRI and Raman spectroscopy people. And chromatography people as well.
If you don't trust me:
http://www.imsi.bg.ac.rs/cv_template/?id_zap=123
The basic idea of homeopathy is that the diluted water remembers the substance dissolved in it and somehow enhances the effect.
So, here is the challenge:
- take 20 bottles of whatever you want
- make different concentrations according to homeopathy principles
- mix the bottles
- measure the effect. Measure it however you like. Science doesn't have to understand it
- and simply show the right gradient of concentrations
Simply as that, and the homeopathy would be proven.
Here are the problems I have with the idea:
distilled water is very, very dirty thing in comparison to a homeopathic solution.
- How can you dilute something pure with something dirty?
http://puretecwater.com/deionized-water/laboratory-water-quality-standards
- How can you dilute something pure with something dirty?
how can you dilute something beyond the limits of the single molecule?
- If you start with a 1 mol of the substance, you will have 6 x 10E23. If you dilute the solution in the range of 10E23, you could end up with 1, or 2 or 253 molecules. How do you control this statistical unavoidable error
bacterias are everywhere and those nasty creatures would easily spoil your solution once opened
once you take the remedy, how it is not affected by saliva, stomach, intestine, blood, cell membrane...
Now the practical side, where the memory of water is contained?
- in some ions?
- NO! It would be observable using pH meter, by measuring conductivity. Not there...
- In some energy of motion?
- NO! It would affect the freezing point, melting point, vaporization point, could be measured by calorimeter and so on
- Ok! It is in a form of electrons in some energy levels...
- NO! If would be observable as the phosphorescence or fluorescence, guess what, we could measure that as well
Something similar, but not exactly that?
- Like Raman? NO! Again, it is measurable
- Like Raman? NO! Again, it is measurable
In some vibrations, rotations?
- NO! Measurable again, by vibrational spectroscopy, NIR, FTIR
- It is beyond the vibration it is some property of the electron.
- NO! We have EPR spectroscopy.
- Ok! It is in the nucleus...
- NO! We have NMR spectrometers.
In conclusion, if you can't measure something, you can't draw the conclusions.
It is simply a logical error.
If you have any questions or the ideas that were not covered in this post, please writte the comment and I will improve it.