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Default OT - The Lancet's Vaccine Retraction -- A medical journal's rolein the autism scare

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I think that Homopathic medicines ought to be held to the same
standards as any other medicine.


Oh, I agree.

That is they would have to prove that it has some effect.


Homeopathic "medicines" would pass that standard easily.

Fortunately, that's not the standard that's used to assess the effectiveness
of a medicine. This is: in a placebo-controlled, double-blind study, it needs
to be more effective _than_the_placebo_ by a statistically significant margin.

Homeopathy works because placebos work.