[escepticos] Comic homeopatía

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Mr Reivaj escribió:

> El día 17 de julio de 2010 00:49, José Á. Morente
> ..........................suprimido por comodidad
> ]. [http://www.cancerdecisions.com/content/view/414/2/lang,english/]

() En el enlace citado aquí, no en el del <artículo científico> (*), 
me encuentro con el siguiente párrafo en el que se da una explicación 
del "número C" y luego un maravilloso "argumento" para ¿contrarestar? 
la crítica de la dilución extrema y encima sugerir algo así como una 
ventaja incuestionable [en su opinión]: Disponibilidad casi ilimitada 
de medicina homeopática:

"The "C" Number
What exactly does this "C" number mean? It is indication of the 
dilution of the active ingredient in an inert medium such as water. 
Thus, a "3C" dilution means that there is one molecule of an herb like 
Conicum maculatum in one million molecules of inert medium..."


  It is theoretically possible that a medicine could consist of just 
one part of a chemical in a million molecules of inert liquid. For 
instance, we know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set 
a limit of 2 ppm for polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs) in fish (two 
parts of PCBs per million parts of fish tissue, per Maxim, 1984).


But as the "C" number rises, so does the dilution. Samuel Hahnemann, 
MD, the 19th century inventor of homeopathy, used 30C dilutions for 
many diseases. This means that there is 1 molecule in "10 to the 
sixty" molecules of inert solvent. On average, this means you would 
have to give two billion doses of a 30C remedy per second to 6 billion 
people for 4 billion years in order to deliver a single molecule of 
the original material to any patient!

Saludos
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(*) enlace al abstract del artículo en el IJO : 
<http://tinyurl.com/ylbbuxj>