Giving a lecture on old-timey quack medicines tomorrow

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138. Bullshit

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You've been drinking to much koolaid.

Homeopathic "medicine" has saved no one.

Well, maybe some people from a terrible thirst.

"The effectiveness of homeopathy has been in dispute since its inception. One of the earliest double blind studies concerning homeopathy was sponsored by the British government during World War II in which volunteers tested the efficacy of homeopathic remedies against diluted mustard gas burns.[109]

No individual preparation has been unambiguously demonstrated to be different from placebo.[2][110] The methodological quality of the primary research was generally low, with such problems as weaknesses in study design and reporting, small sample size, and selection bias. Since better quality trials have become available, the evidence for efficacy of homeopathy preparations has diminished; the highest-quality trials indicate that the remedies themselves exert no intrinsic effect.[15][12][33]:206 A review conducted in 2010 of all the pertinent studies of "best evidence" produced by the Cochrane Collaboration concluded that "the most reliable evidence – that produced by Cochrane reviews – fails to demonstrate that homeopathic medicines have effects beyond placebo."[111]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

60 years of tests, and no one can find shit that shows it works.