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The new British minister of health has recently become the target of scorn and mockery, after a science writer with The Telegraph noted that he supports homeopathy
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there’s a difference between something that hasn’t been proven to work and something that couldn’t possibly work
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Improvements in brain imaging technology, for example, have shown that meditation—a practice long dismissed by Western doctors as pure mysticism—can improve both the structure and function of the brain
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Let's ignore, for example, the homeopathic notion that illness is caused by a disturbance in an individual's "vital force" rather than something external, like a bacterium or virus
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Another thing homeopathy has in common with Western medicine is its strict attention to how treatments are dosed
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All homeopathic remedies are available in a huge range of concentrations
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those concentrations are really small
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homeopaths think of a large dose as a high dilution, instead of a high concentration.
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idea that a lower dose of a drug has a bigger effect than a high dose runs contrary to what western medicine has found
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