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From: Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
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Subject: Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner
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In article <v0r6cl$2ibk7$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>Oddly, however, vaccines operate by a method not too far off part of
>homeopathic doctrine. Not the dilution part, but the part which says
>to give the patient a little of what causes their symptoms.

Where homeopathy, of course, defines "a little" as "only one chance
in a gadzillion of the nostrum containing even a single molecule of
the stuff that causes their symptoms."

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