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Merrick
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Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Jan 29, 2010, 12:54
Squid, I don't doubt that homeopathy's worked for your friend.

Squid Tempest wrote:
Apparently for her it really works, and in ways that it is hard to fit in with the placebo effect. real, physical differences.


I think you misunderstand what the placebo effect is. It *does* deliver real, physical differences. It really medically works for some people. Ben Goldacre's excellent article on placebo says there was even a study where people were told they were getting a placebo with no actual medicine in and some of them responded.

http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/all-bow-before-the-might-of-the-placebo-effect-it-is-the-coolest-strangest-thing-in-medicine/

Squid Tempest wrote:
Could it possibly be that there is something going on here that science has yet to suss out?


If it actually worked as actual medicine, tests would show that. WE don't need science to show *how* it works - there is a lot of mystery and much that we don't yet know - but trials do need to show that something *does* work. And the extensive trials of homeopathy show that it does not, beyond placebo.
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