Crossovers That Should Not Be XVI: Mass-Murderers Love Company

[Proginoskes]

This is completely off topic, but your new sig has been really bugging me, Bob. The idea behind homeopathic medicine isn't duplication at all, but infinite divisibility: the sincere belief that cutting a hundred-dollar bill into a hundred pieces is a valid way of making change. (Or more accurately, putting a $100 bill in with a bunch of blank paper will get you 100 $1 bills, or possibly 400 25-cent bills.) At least, that's the justification for "homeopathic quantities". The alleged mechanism of homeopathic medicine is an entirely separate, and even stupider, piece of "logic". Samuel Hahnemann massively misinterpreted and extrapolated a single case of a drug's side-effects matching the disease's symptoms (that of quinine-containing Cinchona bark and malaria) into "similia similibus curentur", "like cures like".