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- From: greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: Analysis of Homeopathy Literature
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:29:18 GMT
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- Bernie,
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- I for one am going to want to continue discussing homeopathy in the
- future, however I have other things I'm pursuing at the moment.
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- My interest in homeopathy is based on my own curiosity and what I
- believe are positive results recieved from it. While I understand
- that scientific proof is very important, I won't discontinue my
- own personal experimentation because homeopathy doesn't see eye to
- eye with current medical knowledge.
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- I have come to understand through this dialogue the limitations of
- ancedotal evidence (or complete worthlessness if you must) in terms
- of convincing someone of something they're not currently convinced of,
- however for my own life and purposes, ancedotal evidence is very valuable
- and currently more important (in terms of my personal use) than scientific
- evidence.
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- I hope we will continue to discuss homeopathy in the future...
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- Greg
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- In article 93Jan22073235@elvis.stsci.edu, bsimon@stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:
- > I posted the list of controlled studies of homeopathy at the request
- > of Dr. Kaplan. If it's considered improper to post a citation on the
- > net without first reading it, please let me know and I will refrain
- > from doing so in the future. My statement that the majority of
- > controlled studies of homeopathy support its effectiveness is based on
- > the statements in the BMJ survey. I have defended my interpretation of
- > this survey recently, so there is no point in repeating it here. I
- > invite all interested persons to read the survey themselves to see if
- > I have misrepresented it. You're quite right that this prolonged
- > discussion of the clinical evidence has grown tedious. I suppose it
- > just shows what an incredibly stubborn person I am to have dragged out
- > the argument for so long on sci.med and here. I would like to discuss
- > other aspects of homeopathy and will gladly drop conversation on this
- > topic if others will also.
- >
- > "Clinical trials of homoeopathy.", Kleijnen, Jos; Knipschild, Paul; ter
- > Riet, Gerben; British Medical Journal, Feb 9, 1991 v302 n6772 p516(8).
- > --
- > Bernie Simon What we know comes to so little
- > (bsimon@stsci.edu) And what we presume is so much -- Neruda
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