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Article: Dilutions or delusions? (research on effect of dilute antibody solutions on white blood cells)
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- July 2, 1988
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Dilutions or delusions?
"An experiment whose conclusions have no physical basis is described in this week's [june 30] issue," say the editors of NATURE. With the comment, they feature a paper by 13 researchers testing the hallmark of homeopathic medicin: the use of minute doses of drugs that bring on symptoms similar to the disease to stimulate a cure.
The international team appears to have demonstrated that while blood cells called basophils react to an antibody solution after the equivalent of 120 tenfold diluations. The antibodies normally bind to and disrupt basophil membranes until the membranes can no longer hold a laboratroy stain, a process known ...