This stuff makes me very angry that a paper could publish such rubbish. It's complete gibberish loaded with unscientific crap, pseudo science, and logical fallacies. It's not surprising since there is no proof that homoeopathy works its supporter have to fall back on rubbish to make their claims. This is a very good deconstruction of what a load of crap this article is http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=50
Homoeopathy is 200 year old nonsense from before the germ theory of disease, it has been repeatedly proved false and of no use but it persists and in the biggest insult it even gets tax money for it's crazy schemes. It's supporters would have us abandon the scientific method for their "magic water".
It's pretty easy to prove that homoeopathy doesn't work it's been done several times, I believe James Randi did this at least once and he often does the fatal overdose of homoeopathic sleep aids to prove there is nothing to them, take their ingredients shuffle them at random so the labels on the bottle don't match the contents if there was anything to the thing then it should stop working. But there is no change in any effect so it's pretty clear it's nothing more than a placebo.
Science moved on from this rubbish a hundred of years ago, it's about time it was abandoned and we got on with more useful research activities.
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There was another good takedown of this article at Denialism.
That is good they picked out a bit that I spotted then forgot about
this is a nice bit of anti science
"But where is the scientific sense is saying that because we don't understand something, even though we can discern its effects, we have to ignore it, scorn it, or suppress it?"
which should read
"we can discern its effects but only in anecdotal uncontrolled situations since controlled conditions make the effects vanish"
I am normally inclined to speak out in defence of such flim-flam... But if that is the best they can come up with in defence of homeopathy then it's time to pack up and bugger off home.
This is a wonderful counter to that article
http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/
it goes over the whole argument and the detail of how evidence based medicine trials work and the implications of placebos and how homoeopathy fits in the picture