Homeopathy is often dismissed as one of history's great medical mistakes. But if it was so obviously wrong, why did so many intelligent physicians embrace it, and why did so many patients insist it worked?

At the turn of the twentieth century, roughly one in ten American physicians practiced homeopathy. They founded medical schools, built hospitals, published scientific journals, and competed directly with conventional medicine. So why did millions of patients trust them, and why did the movement ultimately fail?

In this episode, Dr. Robert Lane and Dr. Bart Patenaude explore the remarkable history of homeopathy, from Samuel Hahnemann's revolutionary idea that "like cures like" to the bizarre world of serial dilutions, succussion, vital forces, and remedies so diluted that not a single molecule of the original substan ...