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Comment author: JoshuaZ 01 September 2012 12:36:43AM *  1 point [-]

Actually, homeopathy only dates to the 19th century.

Anyone can say it seems to violate the laws of physics, but the only way to be sure is to test it.

You can't be sure about anything. Everything has some small chance of being the case, but homeopathy is grossly at odds with very basic aspects of modern physics, including simple issues of reductionism. Don't privilege the hypothesis http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/ any more than any other idea out there.