{"id":4558,"date":"2015-03-18T06:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2015-03-16T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:23:45","slug":"homeopaths-totally-baffled-by-cordial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2015\/03\/18\/homeopaths-totally-baffled-by-cordial\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeopaths Totally Baffled By Cordial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is genius. Taken from Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/comedy\/article\/2015\/03\/13\/homeopaths-totally-baffled-cordial\"><em>The Backburner<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesperson for Australian Homeopathic Association has released a statement today conceding that they are \u201cbaffled\u201d by the concept of cordial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Homeopathy, an alternative medicine practice dating back to the 18th century, operates under the principle that water holds \u201cmemory\u201d and that a substance will increase in efficacy as it is diluted in solution. Cordial, a sweet syrup used to make flavoured drinks with added water, operates under the principle that as you add more water to it, it gets less good.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/comedy\/sites\/sbs.com.au.comedy\/files\/styles\/full\/public\/luciouslemoncordial.jpg?itok=YE9rWwts&amp;mtime=1426222562\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt just doesn\u2019t add up,\u201d says AHA spokesperson James Douglas, \u201cthe more water you put in, the more it tastes like water, at 1 part cordial to 10,000 parts water, it tastes indistinguishable from water and nothing like the \u2018super cordial\u2019 we anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSomething like this flies in the face of our research, we\u2019ve conducted tens of experiments under kind of okayish conditions and once or twice almost demonstrated that homeopathy definitely, definitely works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSure, perhaps we can\u2019t independently verify it but what\u2019s science about if not blind faith?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement follows a conclusive report published by the National Health and Medical Research Council on Wednesday that there is no reliable evidence to support any claims that homeopathy is effective&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/comedy\/article\/2015\/03\/13\/homeopaths-totally-baffled-cordial\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesperson for Australian Homeopathic Association has released a statement today conceding that they are \u201cbaffled\u201d by the concept of cordial.<\/p>\n<p>Homeopathy, an alternative medicine practice dating back to the 18th century, operates under the principle that water holds \u201cmemory\u201d and that a substance will increase in efficacy as it is diluted in solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1579,20,23],"tags":[649,209],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pseudoscience","category-science","category-skepticism","tag-homeopathy","tag-pseudoscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}