One Million Rupees Offer to prove "Homeopathy is Paranormal"

Dr. MAS

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Just a little under $US23000. BTW.

That's great, so you contend that it works,
And I show that there is no difference between distilled water and a homeopathic remedy.
And you can't tell the difference chemically either.
But you say it works.
So it must be paranormal.

I don't have to prove it works do I, otherwise I'm stuffed.

I'll take a cheque.

O.

PS.
I still think you may be a troll.

PPS.
There's no way I'm clicking on your wesite and giving you my IP after you asked for personal details from another member.
 
If it were paranormal, at least it might possibly make sense. But no one claims homeopathy is paranormal. Homeopathy is simply nonsense.
 
Personally, I find the paranormal question to be pointless, unless you're asking whether or not Randi would accept it as worthy of the JREF prize. The answer is probably yes, but may vary, depending on the sorts of claims you make as to what it can do.

A more important question: Does it work?
According to all the double-blind control experiments: No.
 
Dr. MAS said:
In the end, it was decided to offer One Million Rupees to those who will prove that “Homeopathy is paranormal”, In this regard, a committee was formulated which will define terms and condition in a week which will be notified later on at www.nchpakistan.com forum.
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Are you familiar with current currency rates?
To prove “Homeopathy is paranormal”, you would first have to show homeopathy exists.
if you can do that, the Randi Foundation will pay you $1,000,000.

Why bother with your award?
 
Dr. MAS said:
******** In the end, it was decided to offer One Million Rupees to those who will prove that “Homeopathy is paranormal”, In this regard, a committee was formulated which will define terms and condition in a week which will be notified later on at www.nchpakistan.com forum.

Further correspondence if any can be addressed at

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.drmas.tk

Further detail can be found at www.nchpakistan.com forum.
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From Miriam-Webster's Dictionary
Main Entry: para·nor·mal
Pronunciation: "par-&-'nor-m&l
Function: adjective
: not understandable in terms of known scientific laws and phenomena <experiments in paranormal cognition of drawings —Psychological Abstracts> —para·nor·mal·ly /-E/ adverb
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From the
Institute of Science in Society
Homeopathy is entering the mainstream in the UK. Sam Burcher reports on some recent findings that bear on a centuries-old controversy that still baffles mainstream science.
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From abc homeopathy
It is true that nobody knows exactly how homeopathy works.
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Do you not have fraud laws in Pakistan?
Even the information from pro-Homeopathic sites says that science cannot explain homeopathy.

Since this is the dictionary definition of 'paranormal' you should be paying out this prize, or you are fraudulently advertising a competition when you intend to refuse to pay the winner.
 
shade of Victor Zammit and Kent Hovind methinks
 
ok, I offer € 100 (I'm not that rich...) to someone who can prove me that gravity is the result of invisible goblins pulling and pushing stuff around.
 
Gaga said:
ok, I offer € 100 (I'm not that rich...) to someone who can prove me that gravity is the result of invisible goblins pulling and pushing stuff around.
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Actually to be similar to Dr. Mas' challenge you would have to say something like
"I offer €100 to someone who can prove that gravity a natural force of attraction between any two massive bodies, which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them."

Come to think of it, even that would be harder to 'prove' than the 'challenge' on this thread.

Dr. Mas is pretty much asking people to prove that an undisputed characteristic of homeopathy (the fact that it is inexplicable by science) and an identical characteristic of the dictionary definition of the word 'paranormal' (inexplicable by science) are the same.

Which anyone can do without leaving their chair.
 
Homeopathy is obviously paranormal. Why else would Dr. MAS need to post in different colours and sizes?
 
Dr. MAS said:
******** In the end, it was decided to offer One Million Rupees to those who will prove that “Homeopathy is paranormal”, In this regard, a committee was formulated which will define terms and condition in a week which will be notified later on at www.nchpakistan.com forum.
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Homoeopathy has no proven effect. That is, it behaves exactly like science predicts it should do: There is nothing paranormal about the effects of homoeopathy.

How about reformulating the challenge so that we should prove that homoeopathic theory is paranormal?
 
Re: Re: One Million Rupees Offer to prove "Homeopathy is Paranormal"

steenkh said:
Homoeopathy has no proven effect. That is, it behaves exactly like science predicts it should do: There is nothing paranormal about the effects of homoeopathy.

How about reformulating the challenge so that we should prove that homoeopathic theory is paranormal?
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Excellent point. :D
 
Ashles, I understand what you mean, thanks for the answer, but I don't think that that's what he thinks.
Probably the whole previuos thread in which he played with the definition of paranormal was to understand if he could pull this stunt now. Sadly I'm not sure he understood a bit of what has been answered to his questions.
Moreover:
To actually prove that something is inexplicable is quite hairy, what would constitute a proof?
In order to prove that something is inexplicable it's necessary to know exactly what is 'something' and if that 'something' is there at all. In the given case it's even more complicated... :)

As an aside I'm not going to regard kindly someone who thinks he has a cure for AIDS (an easy demonstrable claim, I think) and stay there playing with words instead of publishing it for the world to see... :rolleyes:
 
Great Prizes.

Just save one prize. Mostly, molecular existance, water carrying memory...looks somewhat possibily explainable in science.

Confidence & boldness of Dr. Mas indicates, he may be knowing science of homeopathic remedies.

Now it is your turn to prove homeopathy as paranormal by applying the prize.
 
Kumar said:
.Confidence & boldness of Dr. Mas indicates, he may be knowing science of homeopathic remedies....
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There is no such science. It's nonsense. So his confidence is misplaced and his boldness is just silly.
 
Re: Re: One Million Rupees Offer to prove "Homeopathy is Paranormal"

steenkh said:
Homoeopathy has no proven effect. That is, it behaves exactly like science predicts it should do: There is nothing paranormal about the effects of homoeopathy.

How about reformulating the challenge so that we should prove that homoeopathic theory is paranormal?
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I think the whole question of whether homeopathy is "paranormal" only arose because Dr. MAS saw the General Skepticism and The Paranormal forum and decided to post here, rather than in Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology. Why he did this is anyone's guess (although he seems to have enthusiastically latched onto the issue as an excuse for not posting any evidence that homeopathy actually works;)).
 
Re: Re: One Million Rupees Offer to prove "Homeopathy is Paranormal"

steenkh said:
Homoeopathy has no proven effect. That is, it behaves exactly like science predicts it should do: There is nothing paranormal about the effects of homoeopathy.

How about reformulating the challenge so that we should prove that homoeopathic theory is paranormal?
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Ah yes. Very good point. :)

Homeopathy is in fact completely understood by science.
Drinking water doesn't cure anything, and that is the result we observe.
 
Kumar said:
Great Prizes.

Just save one prize. Mostly, molecular existance, water carrying memory...looks somewhat possibily explainable in science.

Confidence & boldness of Dr. Mas indicates, he may be knowing science of homeopathic remedies.

Now it is your turn to prove homeopathy as paranormal by applying the prize.
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I suspect this won't mean much to you, Kumar, but "water memory" is something that, if it existed at all could not be explained by modern science. So far, no one has proven the existence of "water memory" or the efficacy of homeopathy.

Additionally, I find Dr. MAS to be lacking in both confidence and boldness: If homeopathy worked, he would just demonstrate it, rather than retreat into a semantic debate.

Monty Python line tha comes to mind: One of Sir Robin's minstrels: "Bravely ran away, away! Bravely ran away!"
 
Gaga said:
As an aside I'm not going to regard kindly someone who thinks he has a cure for AIDS (an easy demonstrable claim, I think) and stay there playing with words instead of publishing it for the world to see... :rolleyes:
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Absolutely.

Did someone say fantasy-prone attention seeker?
 
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