Easy test for validity of Homeopathy

[Mancunian]

Make a homeopath take a lethal does of, say, snake venom. Then give him a homepathic remedy and see what happens.

[MRC_Hans]

That is not a fair test of homeopathy. Homeopathy claims that if the patient's complete symptom profile is taken, then a remedy that matches that profile will cure the patient of illness. It does not claim that it can invariably cope with acute poisoning, because the poison is also a drug, and you can't counter a drug homeopathically while it is still in action (this is one of the reasons that classical homeopaths are very adamant that you must ever only use one remedy at a time).

You can, however, often antidote a drug. But how this works is not entirely clear. It would seem that antidoting has mainly been invented to explain why remedies sometimes fail to have any effect.

Hans

[Zep]

This has already been suggested. Please search for "Taipan Test".

[Starrman]

Didn't some skeptics in Europe do the reverse recently, and make homeopathic solutions out of various poisons and drink them?

Too lazy to find link.

[steenkh]

Originally posted by Starrman
Didn't some skeptics in Europe do the reverse recently, and make homeopathic solutions out of various poisons and drink them?

Randi did that once.