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by mr_mitm 1032 days ago
These facts won't convince people who believe in homeopathy, of which there are plenty. Of course there shouldn't be a controversy, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that there is, considering the amount of anti-scientific sentiments in the general population.
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If I shit in the ocean, does the ocean become highly potent and poisonous because its highly diluted shit?
Shit breaks down into food.

In the ocean: bacteria food -> plant food -> fish food.

According to homeopathy, it does become potent, yes, but not poisonous, because it will magically heal whatever disease ingesting shit causes.

With one caveat: homeopathy says that the water has to be diluted by a certain process which involves tapping it ten times during full moon or some non-sense like that.