the oldest double-blind RCT of which I found record was conducted in 1835 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and subsequently described in an editorial in 2006 entitled “Inventing the randomized double-blind trial: The Nuremberg salt test of 1835.”It is not just today we have investigated and determined homeopathy is nothing more than wishful-thinking: that debate was settled 175 years ago! That is, to those that have not been infected with the denialist-virus.
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Friday 16 April 2010
Homeopathy has not worked in 175 years
As anyone who subscribes to the scientific method knows homeopathy does not work. Interestingly Orac, while cleaning up his attic, discovered:
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