I suggest you look up the research on PubMed comparing "placebo effect" in Homeopathic medicine to the same in conventional drugs -- the conclusion is that it's about the same... So by your reasoning, conventional drugs are no more than placebos -- really expensive and toxic ones.
So now that readers know that "everything" is placebo we can all save lots of money and aggravation, stay home and do nothing.
According to the FDA any study that shows an effect for a substance even minimally beyond placebo is "safe and effective"... until it starts killing and maiming people. Oops. This happens on a regular basis.
Some people have a very unhealthy obsession with taking potshots at Homeopathy that are founded on absolutely nothing but the comments made by nutjobs on "science blogs". Many of those nutjobs are being funded by the drug cartel. Their minions are what Stalin referred to as "useful idiots".
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I suggest you look up the research on PubMed comparing "placebo effect" in Homeopathic medicine to the same in conventional drugs -- the conclusion is that it's about the same... So by your reasoning, conventional drugs are no more than placebos -- really expensive and toxic ones.
June 21, 2012 - 11:25amSo now that readers know that "everything" is placebo we can all save lots of money and aggravation, stay home and do nothing.
According to the FDA any study that shows an effect for a substance even minimally beyond placebo is "safe and effective"... until it starts killing and maiming people. Oops. This happens on a regular basis.
Some people have a very unhealthy obsession with taking potshots at Homeopathy that are founded on absolutely nothing but the comments made by nutjobs on "science blogs". Many of those nutjobs are being funded by the drug cartel. Their minions are what Stalin referred to as "useful idiots".
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