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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 13 September 1997

From Paul Springate

plds@vam.ac.uk

So, homeopaths have produced a cold cure where only one of the 10400
molecules in a pill is duck. Well, if they are capable of squeezing “far more
than the total number of atoms in the Universe” into a single pill, I’m more
than willing to believe that they can cure the common cold! Have I
misunderstood, or have you miscalculated something?

Issue no. 2099 published 13 September 1997

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