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      homoeopathic treatment amid debate about its efficacy and the drive to
      cuts costs, a study has suggested.
        </q></p></blockquote>
    <p>
      As Dan so succinctly put it, <a
      href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7215470.stm">about freakin
      time</a>.  That said, the BBC are still a little wooly on the scientific
      side of things:
    </p>
    <blockquote><p><q>...and some scientists argue the solution is so diluted it does not
      contain any active ingredients at all.</q></p></blockquote>
    <p>
      Both sides generally agree it doesn't contain any of the active
      ingredient, that's pretty much the entire point of homoeopathy verses
      conventional medicine or poison (depending on what the active ingredient
      is).  Scientists point out that a remedy can't do anything if there is
      nothing but water in it, homoeopaths insist that water has a mysterious
      (and bounded, unless tap water in old houses doubles as the homoeopathic
      remedy <cite>Plumbum Metallicum</cite>) memory which makes it magically
      work.
    </p>
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