Posted: Jun 20, 2010 9:09 pm
Dr. Nancy Malik wrote:Shrunk wrote:TMB wrote:I am not in a position to comment about homeopathy in terms of how it works etc, except for the fact that it works for me and my family and has done many times. You might ascribe this to placebo, and perhaps you are correct, but thats just anecdotal to.
Wrong. Your family's experience of getting better with homeopathy is an anecdote. The question of whether homeopathy is any more effective than placebo can only be determined by controlled trials, not by anecdote.
The problem isn’t with the use of anecdotal evidence. It’s with the double standard applied by the conventional regulatory establishment that holds complementary & alternative medicine to an absurdly higher standard. If informed anecdotal evidence is allowable for 85% of all medical procedure and drug usage, why is alternative health held to an impossible 0% standard?
You have to be joking.