Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990829143347.00858d90@rongenet.sk.ca>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:33:47 -0600
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk, <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
From: Lloyd Robertson <hawkeye@rongenet.sk.ca>
Subject: Re: Dawkins' Mutation Test for Replicators
In-Reply-To: <005301bef229$7de393c0$22146ccb@ddiamond>
At 07:05 PM 29/08/99 +1000, Chris Lofting wrote:
>
>Your dismissal of homeopathy is interesting and suggests you are not up to
>date on these sorts of things for it has been found that at the micro level
>water contains an imprint of what was mixed with it where *chemical*
>analysis shows only water is present. Quantum mechanics has led to this
>discovery. The vigourous shaking of the water supposidly 'brings out' the
>imprint pattern (I have a ref somewhere, there is a company in France as
>well as here in Australia that is investigating this).
>
Come now Chris. The vigorous shaking of water has something to do with
Quantum Mechanics? And even if it did, this would support the homeopathic
claim that water remembered "essence" of rose petals, at $30.00 (CDN) per
oz. is going to cure me? Gee, we better tell the homeopaths this, they'll
have another straw to grasp!
Lloyd
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