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- From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
- Subject: Re: homeopathy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.200102.6150@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <BSIMON.92Dec23071932@elvis.stsci.edu> <1992Dec23.171758.3859@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <BSIMON.92Dec23141255@elvis.stsci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:01:02 GMT
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- In article <BSIMON.92Dec23141255@elvis.stsci.edu> bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.171758.3859@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- >lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
- >
- > >If you read my first post, you would have seen that I listed several
- > >double blind studies which show the effectiveness of homeopathic
- > >medicines. Can you cite some studies which show that homeopathic
- > >medicines do not work any better than placebos?
- >
- > Yes. Its called avagodro's (sp?) number :-)
- >
- >Saying the homeopathy can't work because it contradicts currently
- >accepted theory doesn't seem a scientific attitude to me.
-
- So where is the new scientific theory? When it seemed Cold fusion might
- be real people went searching for what would allow it to work, I don't
- see any one trying to find a new theory that would allow homeopathy to
- work.
-
- >In fact, it
- >reminds me of the clerics who refused to look through Galileo's
- >telescope at the moons of Jupiter because they "knew" all heavenly
- >bodies revolved around the Earth. The scientific way to proceed is to
- >conduct clinical trials and see if homeopathy (or accupuncture, or
- >some other system of alternative medicine) works. Fortunately, the NIH
- >has recently allocated $9 million to conduct tests of alternative
- >medicine. So we will have some hard evidence on which to base our
- >opinions.
-
- I will agree with that. However if I had to decide on treatments
- I wouldn't risk my life betting that something that hasn't been
- tested, and requires violation of know physical laws would work.
- I might as well jump off a building and hope that I grow wings
- quickly :)
-
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