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NPR story on "Homeopathy" already off to a bad start - the commentator referred to it as an "ancient form of medicine." It's not ancient. It was invented by Samuel Hahnemann based on a single patient (himself) in about 1811. It pre-dates the Germ Theory of Disease and nearly all of modern scientific and evidence-based medicine. At least they had Steven Novella on in the story, who eviscerated the claims of the M.D. practicing homeopathy at the beginning. Oh, and hats off to that loon - he tried to use quantum physics to explain how it works. The secret to medicine that doesn't do anything is that it then requires no explanatory mechanism . . . because there is nothing to explain.