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Photographer: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images  \nLike millions of other parents, I dutifully took my kids to see Disney’s “Frozen 2” last month, thinking nothing of it. But a few weeks later, not only am I still humming “Into the Unknown.” I am also pondering whether the company that created Donald Duck has embraced quack medicine.  \nLet me explain. The recurring theme in “Frozen 2” is that water has memory. This idea appears time and again throughout the movie, from the very first song — the haunting lullaby “All Is Found”(“where the Northwind meets the sea, there’s a river full of memory”)—to the predictably sentimental ending.  \nAt first glance that doesn’t seem unusual; after all, this is a movie whose main characters are an ice witch, a talking snowman and a guy who can basically read his reindeer’s mind. What I found suspicious, however, is a scene where Olaf (the snowman) entertains his friends with scientific trivia: Water has memory, turtles breathe through their butts, men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women, and wombats poop in squares. These claims are reasonably accurate, 1 except for water memory. To make matters worse, Olaf actually insists that “it’s disputed by many, but it’s true.”  \nOlaf’s lecture seems to support homeopathy, a system of alternative medicine that relies on the idea that water“remembers” the effects of substances that were previously dissolved in it. In fact, homeopaths believe that the more themother tincture — the original solution that contains active ingredients — is diluted in water, the more potent it becomes.  \n[https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-24/-frozen-2-embraces-homeopathic-quackery?sref=u0gBcsNr](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-24/-frozen-2-embraces-homeopathic-quackery?sref=u0gBcsNr) 1/3  \nThis counterintuitive principle of “less is more” is the source of the corny joke about the patient who forgot to take his homeopathic medicine and died of an overdose.  \nTo give a concrete example, Whole Foods Market sells the homeopathic remedy Oscillococcinum for flu-like symptoms, 2 whose dilution factor is “200C.” This means that the mother tincture was diluted 200 times by a factor of 100, which gives a dilution factor of 10 raised to the power of 400 — that’s a 1 trailed by 400 zeros. Many accounts of homeopathy explain how extreme a dilution this is through colorful analogies, but that’s a futile exercise because the following fact is not in question:  \nOscillococcinum and similarly diluted homeopathic remedies are highly unlikely to contain a single molecule of their active ingredients.  \nThe second major principle underlying homeopathy is “like cures like”: to cure a disease, use a substance that causes  \nsimilar symptoms in a healthy person. Contact with poison ivy, for example, causes itching, burning and blistering;  \nhomeopaths believe it can cure herpes, eczema and arthritis — after being properly diluted, of course. Other substances used to make homeopathic remedies are much more disturbing, including Excrementum Caninum (dog’s excrement), Ambra Grisea (intestinal secretion of a sperm whale) and, notoriously, Murus Berlinens (pieces of the actual Berlin Wall) .  \nThe twin principles of homeopathy were formulated by its founder, the German physician Samuel Hahnemann, at the end of the 18th century. He discovered the principle of “like cures like” by consuming Cinchona, used to treat malaria, when he was healthy, and observing that it causes malaria-like symptoms. Today we have a precise understanding of the mechanism by which Cinchona combats malaria: It has nothing to do with Hahnemann’s ideas.  \nThe origins of “less is more” are somewhat more mysterious. Hahnemann needed","cbCail7UjFA0GQQy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail7UjFA0GQQy","pdf",174989,"English","# Homeopathy claims echoed in “Frozen 2”\n## Water memory and the “scientific trivia” scene\n## “Less is more”: extreme dilution\n## “Like cures like”: symptom-matching substances\n## Evidence from health authorities and trials\n# Homeopathy’s popularity despite weak efficacy","[{\"question\":\"What theme in “Frozen 2” the author links to homeopathy?\",\"answer\":\"The author points to the recurring idea that water has memory, which parallels homeopathy’s claim that water “remembers” previously dissolved substances.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article say diluted homeopathic remedies are unlikely to work?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that remedies like Oscillococcinum use extreme dilutions, making it highly unlikely that they contain even a single molecule of the original active ingredients.\"},{\"question\":\"What do health authorities concluded about homeopathy’s effectiveness?\",\"answer\":\"The article states that multiple reviews by national health bodies concluded there is no reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective for any health condition and that any benefit is consistent with placebo effects.\"}]","‘Frozen 2’ Gives Homeopathic Quackery a Warm Embrace | PDF"]