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- From: bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon)
- Subject: Re: homeopathy
- In-Reply-To: schumach@convex.com's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23: 05:43 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:19:21 GMT
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- In article <schumach.725151943@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
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- I have. It is a religion, in essence, because its adherents
- require no evidence for its efficacy beyond the anecdotal. Name some
- double blind trials that were not conducted and sponsored by people
- with a monetary interest in the outcome.
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- It the usual thing in medicine for studies of a new drug to be funded
- by the company that is planning on selling the drug. If you throw out
- all studies that have been funded by drug companies, you are throwing
- out most of the research on allopathic medicines. I don't know who has
- funded most of the research on homeopathic medicine, but absent any
- evidence of fraud, I am willing to accept it just as I accept similar
- research on allopathic medicines.
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- Bernie Simon (bsimon@stsci.edu) ad astra per aspera
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