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> Nurse: Strength?

> Doctor: 1 part in a million

> Nurse: Are you sure? It looks serious

> Doctor: You're right, we need to strengthen the dose: 1 part in 10 million

Hah!



...and that's using numbers people can sort of begin to fathom so they can get a laugh. That's only 7X. 30C is the "OMG potent" dilution in homeopathy - and that's one part in 10^60.


The writers were being responsible. It's not safe to discuss potencies like 10^-60 that casually. People might "try it at home" and hurt themselves.

It's called homeopathy from "home" and "path", meaning "dangerous at home".




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