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To: Talisker
With no control group and no placebo, and the patients weren't randomly sampled, but referred by GPs in the NHS. The study is essentially worthless and laughable because of this alone, more so because it was published in the "Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine".

A joke.

Here's a GENUINE study that aggregated 110 trials that show that homeopathy is the placebo effect:

Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy.

Biases are present in placebo-controlled trials of both homoeopathy and conventional medicine. When account was taken for these biases in the analysis, there was weak evidence for a specific effect of homoeopathic remedies, but strong evidence for specific effects of conventional interventions. This finding is compatible with the notion that the clinical effects of homoeopathy are placebo effects.

71 posted on 09/13/2015 9:04:04 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

The placebo effect is merely a scientific way to say that the immune system is effectively engaged. I’d say a mechanism that can do that is valuable. Also, I’m really tired of you. Your narrow minded arrogance is not only tedious, but makes your eminently hirable as a pharmaceutical shill.

Millions of people use homeopathy to trigger “the placebo effect” successfully, and heal. That seems to drive you mad. Good.


72 posted on 09/13/2015 12:03:32 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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