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What Makes Food Delicious & The Fight Against Quackery

Something You Should Know

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The Quacky Things You've Dealed With in Your Career?

There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. Homeopathy is a very specific pseudoscientific practice that dates back about 200 years to a physician in Germany by the name of Samuel Haneman. The term actually means like cures like. So Hanuman came to the totally unscientific conclusion based on his experiment that a substance that in a healthy person causes a symptom will cure those symptoms in a sick person in a diluted version.

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