Homeopathic taste test

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I have a nice little way to give evidence why homeopathy is not medicine. Homeopathy is of course a pseudomedicine which is all about dilution and that "holes" in water can carry information so that the body can react to it. This means that proteins, enzymes, pain receptors, and bacteria react to these "holes" and have and an effect on the body. Now I think that these "holes" should also have an effect on lets say, taste buds. Why would taste buds be immune to the effect of the "holes". So I think a good way to show that homeopathy is wrong is to show that a homeopathic "medicine" has no taste. So do you guys think that this might be a good way to show that homeopathy is not a medicine?

 

[borrofburi]

I dunno... It's not the best of arguments, after all there are many chemical reactions our tongue and taste buds do not partake in... It's why some chemicals are "taste-less": it simply means that those chemicals do not react with those cells on our tongues. It seems easy enough for a homeopath to argue that our tongues simply don't chemically react with those holes...

Sure you can argue that is silly, that if there were an effect from drinking differently holed water that we would have evolved to taste this... But now you're in a really weird argument, and should probably just fall back to "there's no good evidence that homeopathy works".

 

[RigelKentaurusA]

Some real medicine has little or no taste as well.

Think about it from the homeopathist's perpsective... of course you won't taste it, it's deluded into 1 to 10^(100^100) solution.

 

[Pulsar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0#t=2m13s