If it cannot be replicated in a double blind test, it is hocus pocus. Worse than that, it is hocus pocus masquerading as medicine, taking money and rasing hopes.

If you have any proof that it CAN be replicated in a double blind, great – let us have it. If not, there is simply no point throwing up deliberately obtuse arguments (that ocean thing, seriously… if you couldn’t follow what was beig said there – the problem is you) to try and direct attention away from your lack of proof that homeopathy works….

Yours is completely an Ad hominem argument, attempting to counter anothers claims by attacking the person rather than debating the facts and is typical of a defender of pseudoscience.
Read precisely what was said about the 12C solution. It is the equivalence that matters. The dilution level is EQUIVALENT to one drop in the Atlantic ocean. This is basic Mathematics. It was never claimed that the Atlantic ocean was equivalent to 12 test tubes of water.
Jacques Benveniste’s credentials were not called into question. However it is completely true that the experiments leading up to the publication of the “memory of water” hypothesis were not carried out in a blind fashion.
It was also not claimed that the consultation was the primary treatment but rather it would help the patients recovery thus lending weight to the idea that the placebo effect is at work.
Your immediate leap to the offensive trying to discredit the author makes me suspect you are either a practicing homeopath or a user.

First, the name of the homeopathic medicine made from onion is “Allium cepa.”

Secondly, the 12C homeopathic potency requires 12 testtubes of double-distilled water. Unless the writer thinks that the ocean is composed of only 12 testtubes of water, he is grossly in error.

Jacques Benveniste, MD, was a leading French researcher, who virually always conducted his trials in a blind fashion. ONLY when the editor of NATURE required him to do his studies in a non-blind fashion did he comply to this procedure (it was NOT Benveniste’s idea).

Finally, if the homeopathic interview process was truly the primary “treatment” from a homeopath, then today’s psychologists and psychiatrists would be the best healers in the world because they conduct a more thoroughly and lengthy interview, and patients seek their care once a week or more. In comparison, people go to a homeopath once a month (sometimes) or every 2 or 6 months (which is more typical).

I sincerely hope that someone at your university will give this writer (Alan Coughlan) a FAILING grade.