▪️Homeopathy is based on an absurd concept that denies progress in physics and chemistry. Some 160 years after Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, an essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, we are still debating whether homeopathy is a placebo or not.
▪️Homeopathy is mainly advocated for self-limiting conditions, for example, it cures a cold in 7 days that would otherwise take a week. Do even homeopaths rely on their treatments for cancer and other life-threatening conditions?
▪️There are no reported major “advances” in homeopathy.
▪️Homeopathic principles are bold conjectures. There has been no spectacular corroboration of any of its founding principles.
▪️ An example of the spectacular corroboration of a bold conjecture is that the planet Pluto was predicted by observing minor discrepancies in the orbit of its neighboring planet Neptune, and its discovery was counted as a spectacular corroboration of a bold conjecture. In medicine the same might apply to the discovery of antibiotics.
