http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/

This stuff is great :

'but both were trumped, to great popular acclaim, by Jeanette Winterson, for her excellent plan to send homeopathic remedies to treat HIV in Botswana.'

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Always a great column. =D> =D> =D>

Oh no. I have a horrible, horrible mind, and I'm now thinking about how you'd make a homeopathic remedy for a sexually-transmitted disease.

Help!

Same way you make any other homeopathic medicine: distill water.

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But you need very tiny water molecules (read the article).

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I did read the article.

I'm not sure I'm seeing your point, Swift. I'm not suggesting starting with HIV-tainted water and distilling that. Assuming the HIV virus can survive being boiled/condensed, such a process would be criminal.

I'm talking about distilling water. No other steps.

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I was making a joke based on this from the cosmetics section:

<edited because I was trying to quote myself, hit edit by mistake, and messed up the original post - sorry #-o >

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Ah. That makes more sense now.

Apparently those water molecules weren't yet small enough to get past my BS filter. :roll:

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Are there not laws regarding false and misleading advertising claims? or are the prisons too full already?

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There was once a performance of Mozart's Don Juan where, during the banquet scene, the rather corpulent lead got stuck in the trapdoor that leads to the nether regions. He could neither continue down nor pull himself back out, at which point someone yelled from the audience "Hurrah boys! Hell's finally full!"

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Hurrah??? This is NOT good news. When there's no more room in hell, the Dead will walk the Earth. Haven't these people seen Dawn Of The Dead?

I missed this article in the archive, fortunately I have the kind of friends who don't. The Science of vitamin E enriched toilet paper.

WARNING: Immature content.

Surely you gest?

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You know, that really throws a monkey wrench into one villager's hypothesis:

Now they would have have to be very tiny rocks.

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If, instead of shrinking the water molecules, you made them big enough would you make water a solid?

Or much less dense, in which case the duck would sink? #-o