IIT-B's chemical engineering department bought homeopathic pills from neighbourhood shops, prepared highly diluted solutions and checked these under powerful electron microscopes to find nanoparticles of the original metal.普通に考えれば、近所の店で買ったホメオパシーレメディは「原物質はちゃんと用意されているが、1/100希釈を200回繰り返したわけではない」"希釈詐欺"な商品だったとなるはずだが....
IIT-B(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)の化学工学部門が近所の店でホメオパシー錠剤を買って、希釈度の高いレメディを用意して、強力な電子顕微鏡で調べたところ、希釈前の金属のナノ粒子が見つかった。
''Certain highly diluted homeopathic remedies made from metals still contain measurable amounts of the starting material, even at extreme dilutions of 1 part in 10 raised to 400 parts (200C),'' said Dr Jayesh Bellare from the scientific team.
科学チームのDr. Jayesh Bellareは「金属を素材とする希釈度の高いホメオパシーレメディには、たとえ希釈度1/10400 (200C)であっても、計測可能な量の素材の金属を含まれている」と述べた。
His student, Prashant Chikramane, presented the homeopathy paper titled, 'Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective', as part of his doctoral thesis.
"Homeopathy has been a conundrum for modern medicine. Its practitioners maintained that homeopathic pills got more potent on dilution, but they could never explain the mechanism scientifically enough for the modern scientists,'' said Bellare.
[IIT-B team shows how homeopathy works (2010/12/16) on The Times of India]
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希釈詐欺だけですめばましな気もします。本当に入っていたら健康被害がまたおきますよね。