Quote from: Luqueasaur on February 17, 2020, 07:57:32 PM

Since there's a fat discussion regarding homeopathy around here, can someone explain me what are the basis for that sort of stuff?

There is no scientific basis for it whatsoever - it is quackery.

The basic nonsense behind it is that substances which cause a symptom will cure the same symptom. So if you have a skin rash they suggest a "remedy" made from stinging nettles. Seriously. But, if that wasn't stupid enough, they also believe that water "has a memory". So for your skin rash, they will take some stinging nettle, dilute it one part of stinging nettle to ninety nine parts of water, give it a shake to make a 1% solution, dilute one part of that mixture with a further ninety nine parts of water, give it a shake to make a 0.01% solution, dilute one part of that mixture with a further ninety nine parts of water, give it a shake to make a 0.0001% solution, and you get the idea. They usually repeat this anywhere between 30 to 200 times. However, after around 12 dilutions like this, not even a single molecule of the original substance still remains. But somehow the water "retains a memory" of the original substance. Here's the real kicker though - they think the more you dilute it, the stronger it gets.

It is entirely placebo. Anyone arguing otherwise lacks the most basic understanding of science.

Quote from: BADecker on February 17, 2020, 10:44:53 PM

But, we simply don't have any way of measuring whether or not medicine is causing a placebo effect via the subconscios or not.

What are you even talking about? The placebo effect can be measured extremely easily. You have seriously never heard of a randomized control trial? The entirety of modern medicine is based on comparisons against the placebo effect.