Ridiculous Homeopathy

Below is an excerpt from an article by the guru of homeopathy. Whenever homeopaths need a scientific explanation for how homeopathy works the apparently turn to Lionel Milgrom. For those of you that do not have a PhD in science; the information below will NOT make sense to you, but do not be alarmed, it will not make sense to someone with a PhD either. That is because that which is written below is complete gibberish. The “paper” below sounds scientific but it is completely meaningless. The idea is to completely baffle the reader with bullshit so that they are entirely snowed over. This practice is really shameful. Instead of being embarrassed that you cannot understand this paper you should be angry that someone would attempt to pass off this complete nonsense as science.

However, now that you know the magician’s trick you can read this and enjoy it for its humorous quality. Read a few lines and enjoy the exercise your stomach gets from the hilarious laughter produced by this gobbledygook (“merging of the two semiotic tetrahedra provides a 3-D object called a stellated octahedron…”) indeed! LOL!
 
J Altern Complement Med. 2008  Apr;14(3):329-39 (i.e., fake journal)

A new geometrical description of  entanglement and the curative
homeopathic process.
Milgrom  L.R.

Abstract:

INTRODUCTION: The Memory of Water, a  “local” explanation of
homeopathy’s efficacy, has been supplemented  recently by complementary
“nonlocal” hypotheses. One of these envisages  “quantum
macro-entanglement” among patient, practitioner, and remedy to  form a
“PPR” entangled state, from which the possibility of cure may  manifest.
METHODS: Semiotic analysis affords a geometrical description of  this
entangled state as a patient-centered chiral tetrahedron. Its  four
corners depict three different types of symptoms (of the patient,  the
dis-ease, and the remedial substance) and the potentized  remedy.
RESULTS: Reflecting this state in a practitioner-derived  mirror-like
“therapeutic state space” generates two notional  patient-centered chiral
tetrahedra: cure may be thought to arise from their  patient-driven
combination “through the looking glass” of the therapeutic  state space,
into one polyhedron called a stella octangula or stellated  octahedron;
in essence, a 3-dimensional Star of David. CONCLUSIONS: The  practitioner
helps in forming these notional semiotic polyhedra, but the  patient is
at their epicenters (i.e., the practitioner facilitates but  ultimately
does not control the curative  process).

Excerpts:

Nonlocal entanglement “has been depicted  geometricallly as a hexagonal
bipyramid.  ‘Cure’ results from the  combination of this state with its
‘twisted reflection’ in a notional  two-dimensional mirror-like
‘therapeutic state space’ (an analogue of the  complex mathematical
Hilbert space more familiar from orthodox quantum  theory).”

Referring to semiotics, “the study of signs and symbols”:  “Walach
specifically applies modern semiotics to homeopathy by making some  quite
revolutionary assumptions.  Thus, the usual supposed local,  causal
effects of a potentized homeopathic remedy (i.e., its  pharmacologic
activity, regardless of the absence of molecules of the  substance) are
dropped.  Instead, Walach adopts the semiotic notion  that the
homeopathic remedy is a ’sign’ working simultaneously in and for  two
different but connected meaningful contexts: (1) the symptoms of a  sick
person signify a certain disease state (first meaningful context),  while
simultaneously signifying (2) a homeopathic remedy in the materia  medica
(second meaningful context), the two contexts of illness and  remedies
being connected by the Law of Similars.”

Referring to  “state functions” in “PPR entanglement” (patient,
practitioner, and  remedy):  “these state functions are not related to
quantifiable  physical observables…as in orthodox quantum theory.  They
are  related to more qualitative observables, such as the signs and
symptoms of  a dis-ease, as expressed by the patient and observed by  the
practitioner.”  (Note the use of “dis-ease,” a term popular  with
chiropractors.)

Referring to the complex conjugate as a “mirror  image” of a complex
number: “Such ideas can be used to interpret part of  practitioner’s
role, which is to be an ‘active’ mirror, reflecting back to  the patient
the possibility of a cure….In other words, the practitioner  creates
the conditions for cure (i.e., the therapeutic state space), and  then
operates within that space as the homeopathic operator, IIr, and as  part
of the PPR entangled state.”

“Opening out the two hexagonal  pyramids by ‘projecting’ them onto the
mirror plane defined by IIr shows  that the PPR entangled state is
twisted through 60 degrees relative to its  complex
conjugate…suggesting the practitioner is not a passive  ‘reflector,’
but is active in a way that may be represented metaphorically  as a
twisting motion.”

“It is for this reason the discourse of  quantum theory might be useful

in describing the homeopathic process,  where signs and symptdisease are
considered observable manifestations of an  ‘invisible’
disturbed vital force…”

“…the PPR entangled state by  its very nature is chiral.  By acting as
a mirror (i.e., providing a  therapeutic state space for the patient and
assisting in the formation of  the PPR entangled state), the practitioner
implies the state’s chirality,  and by active reflection, demonstrates it
to the patient.”  (This  leads to the 60 degree twisting noted above.)

“The merging of the two  semiotic tetrahedra in Figure 3G provides a 3-D
object called a stellated  octahedron…”

“…while it is the practitioner who provides the  mirrorlike therapeutic
state-space IIR, it is the patient who has to make  the movement ‘through
the looking glass’ toward cure, which the  practitioner may facilitate
but ultimately, does not control.”

“For  this to occur successfully, however, the practitioner may
notionally  facilitate formation of the tetrahedral entangled PPR and
curative stella  octangula states but not, in the semiotic terms, be a
their  epicenters.  These ‘places’ are reserved exclusively for the
patient  through the journey to cure.”

 

 

 

 

~ by hbfarmstrong on March 5, 2009.