Boy flees Mexico to avoid chemo due in part to religious beliefs.

[Tiberius]

Only a fool is at odds with the conclusions of scientists.

That's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The irony is epic.

Only stupid to people like yourself I presume. Science is the best method we have for determining what is true, because when done correctly it not just gives results, but predicts them as well.

Anyway, recent research has been carried out at Queen's University, Belfast (just a half mile away from my home), by Madeleine Ennis.

A team of researchers have been unable to recreate her results: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/200...athy.shtml

Whether she still believes her experiment or not, it is the opinion of one scientist versus the opinions of the rest of them. As soon as she is able to come up with a test that eliminates bias and is able to reproduce results when other scientists do it, she will take the scientific community by storm. Until then, there is no evidence whatsoever that supports the homeopathic hypothesis that "water has memory", nor why this memory only remembers certain things, nor why when you dilute something it gets stronger. Homeopathy is not science until it can explain itself.

And then there's the placebo effect which has been shown to be a real phenomena.

I never argued that the placebo effect didn't exist. I don't see why you brought it up in the same post as one where you gave a lousy example of a scientist who "proved" homeopathy. The placebo effect does more damage to homeopathy than James Randi has ever done in debunking it.