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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Summary of evidence for homeopathy
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:50:01 GMT
- References: <1dp2tfINNc4a@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <dank.721767362@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.170512.3418@island.COM>
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- In article <1992Nov16.170512.3418@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
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- >It is not a question of fairness. It is a question of cost. Such trials
- >costs a tremendous amount of money. Where is it going to come from? Upjohn
- >isn't going to pay for it. In an ideal world, clinical trials such as
- >you propose would be great. But in this society, the allopaths control
- >the pursestrings, so it ain't gonna happen.
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- Clinical trials can be done if the clinician donates his time,
- the patients are not paid, and the drugs are not expensive.
- I'm sure you'd find enough patients enthusiastic enough about
- homeopathy to agree to the trials. One drawback might be the
- lack of scientific training on the part of the homeopath. The
- experiment would have to be designed so that a difference detected
- would be valid, but given enough time and patients, I see no reason
- that such a thing need cost megabucks. The main expense for clinical
- trials is salary support anyhow.
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