Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, on homeopathy (and Oscillococcinum)

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has written a hard hitting opinion on homeopathy (and Oscillococcinum). He writes:

[quote]Oscillococcinum is a complete hoax product. The method of production is to take an extract of duck liver and heart and dilute it in a 1:100 ratio with water, and to do that dilution over and over, 200 times. Wikipedia, in the article I linked up above, eloquently explains what this means: “Mathematically, in order to have a reasonable chance to obtain one molecule of the original extract, the patient would have to consume an amount of the remedy roughly 10^321 times the number of atoms in the observable universe.”[/quote]

Homeopathy – Oscillococcinum in particular

Jimmy Wales

http://jimmywales.quora.com/Homeopathy-Oscillococcinum-in-particular

Last week I was in a pharmacy (chemist) in London just around the corner from my apartment there. I had a sore throat and cough and wanted to buy some soothing cough drops. … Read the rest