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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: Summary of evidence for homeopathy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214256.9509@netcom.com>
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- References: <dank.721767362@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.170512.3418@island.COM> <17493@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:42:56 GMT
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- In article <17493@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.170512.3418@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
- >--
-
-
- I agree completely. This "allopaths control the pursestrings" and
- "tremendous amount of money" business are just excuses. The real
- thing here is the fact that the field of homeopathic medicine doesn't
- have the scientific background which would just naturally lead its
- practitioners to DESIRE their therapies to be scientifically tested in
- settings such as clinical trials.
-
- P.S. Robert, you stated that having treatments supported by clinical
- testing was the "ideal world". Does this mean that you think that
- "allopathy" operates in an ideal fashion which homeopathy should emulate
- but can't quite manage?
-
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