Comments on: Rampant Homeophobia

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:37:19 +0000

Right then. Can you point me towards any non-anecdotal evidence that homepathy actually has an effect above placebo, please?

By: kittu

kittu — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:31:45 +0000

Homeophobia is the right word for the critics who suffer from this problem. It appears of late some modern medicine establishments are having unfounded worries about the growth of popularity of Homoeopathy. Thats why they instead of directly cross verifying the facts with the patients who are cured of Homoeopathy go on beating about the bush by asking certain questions to Homoeopathic Doctors which in fact are required to be answered by Scientists. A doctor runs his clinic and not a physical laboratories which basic sense eludes these critics. What they attempt is take some paras from Homoeopathic literature mix it with some studies on presently known physics and chemistry and try to prove a point which basically they can not understand. Unless they know why Homoeopathy works if they start their study with a blind biased approach they get some articles as above. First learn the subject, verify the facts with the proven track record of Homoeopathy then some sense will prevail on such people!!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:42:16 +0000

Is a decidedly weird thing to say, if he really is some kind of materials expert as the byline suggests. From GCSE chemistry I think graphite has layers of loosely-connected carbon atoms, right? As you say, I can see how you could compress this to diamond, but is it possible to go the other way?

By: Neil Harding

Neil Harding — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:35:14 +0000

Andrew, I was thinking the same thing as you, what the hell is this guy going on about? Diamond and graphite are both solid carbon (he is right on that), but with diamonds the atoms are all aligned (something to do with sharing electrons), with graphite they are all over the place (graphite is the more stable chemical form). What this has got to do with water memory is anyone’s guess though. He is however quite right that graphite can be changed to diamond in seconds (by a volcanic eruption) or can be man made through extreme compression (very costly and gives poor results – hence why diamonds are still valuable when found).