Thursday, January 21, 2010

The most expensive substance ever?

So, what would you think would be the most expensive substance ever, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Mars Rock?
No, none of those things, it's homoeopathic medicine.



Boots the chemist sells arnica (a treatment for bruising) for a fiver, the active ingredient is so diluted that it would take the combined wealth of every human being that has ever lived in the history of the planet in order to buy one single molecule of arnica from Boots. This scam is so ludicrous that even Boots have come clean saying that there is no evidence to suggest that homeopathic remedies are efficacious but they will sell them if people believe they work.

If you are interested in seeing the maths behind this mind boggling concept then its here.

2 comments:

The Spiv said...

Steve. I've just spent the last 15-20 minutes checking your maths, and can I just say you've got far to much of something there. Time to spare!!!

My head hurts now, so I'm going for a lie down.

Steve Borthwick said...

Welcome Spiv, thanks for taking the time to comment; you know what us geeks are like we take time for the stuff that matters! ;)