Richard Dawkins on Medicine, Placebo and Homeopathy

He talks about homeopathy very precisely in the first few minutes of this video. He makes a very profound point that whoever establishes the scientific validity of homeopathy, will not only get a Nobel Prize in Medicine but also in Physics as this would be such a paradigm shift or revolution in all sciences.

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  1. Hahnemann advocated 30C dilutions for most purposes (that is, dilution by a factor of 10 raised to the power of 60). In Hahnemann’s time it was reasonable to assume that preparations could be diluted indefinitely, as the concept of the atom or molecule as the smallest possible unit of a chemical substance was just beginning to be recognized. We now know that the greatest dilution that is reasonably likely to contain one molecule of the original substance is 12C, if starting from 1 mole of original substance (see Avogadro constant for justification).

    Some homeopaths developed a decimal scale (D or X), diluting the substance to ten times its original volume each stage. The D or X scale dilution is therefore half that of the same value of the C scale; for example, “12X” is the same level of dilution as “6C”. Hahnemann never used this scale but it was very popular throughout the 19th century and still is in Europe. This potency scale appears to have been introduced in the 1830s by the American homeopath Constantine Hering.[9] In the last ten years of his life, Hahnemann also developed a quintamillesimal (Q) or LM scale diluting the drug 1 part in 50,000 parts of diluent.[10] A given dilution on the Q scale is roughly 2.35 times its designation on the C scale. For example, a preparation described as “20Q” has about the same concentration as one described with “47C”g

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilutions

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