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	<title>Comments on: Rust on the Tin Ear</title>
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		<title>By: roger stein</title>
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		<description>Beautifully done Shane.  I too heard the commercial and the mention of the term &#039;homeopathic&#039;. I was instantly filled with an intense urge to see a &quot;first&quot;:  a product label reading &quot;Active Ingredients: None&quot;.  I wasn&#039;t surprised when the website was cagier and more tight-lipped  than a mob boss testifying before Congress.

I, like you, haven&#039;t the slightest doubt the product is fraudulent.  However, I do have to say that although I come from the same Skeptical-Inquirer-reading school as you (figuratively, if not literally), a few months ago I clicked on a few links and was soon reading some studies on homeopathy in the British Medical Journal, the Brits&#039; equivalent of JAMA, (not reading ABOUT some studies, reading the actual studies), and to my genuine astonishment, these  placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized studies found highly statistically-significant results in favor of homeopathy for certain medical conditions.  So I&#039;m left in a mild quandary: all rational theoretical analysis says it&#039;s not possible based on current science, but empirical evidence, in repeated studies, suggests it might be.  (Don&#039;t hold me to this, but my recollection is that there was a mention made of a Cochrane Study on homeopathy, a meta-analysis, which also was positive for homeopathy.)
So, what do people like us do when a series of well-conducted studies, published in a highly reputable medical journal, produce results that CURRENT science indicates is impossible?  Obviously call for more studies, but until then, do we continue to sardonically deride homeopathy (or whatever the subject may be) or temporarily hold our fire?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautifully done Shane.  I too heard the commercial and the mention of the term &#8216;homeopathic&#8217;. I was instantly filled with an intense urge to see a &#8220;first&#8221;:  a product label reading &#8220;Active Ingredients: None&#8221;.  I wasn&#8217;t surprised when the website was cagier and more tight-lipped  than a mob boss testifying before Congress.</p>
<p>I, like you, haven&#8217;t the slightest doubt the product is fraudulent.  However, I do have to say that although I come from the same Skeptical-Inquirer-reading school as you (figuratively, if not literally), a few months ago I clicked on a few links and was soon reading some studies on homeopathy in the British Medical Journal, the Brits&#8217; equivalent of JAMA, (not reading ABOUT some studies, reading the actual studies), and to my genuine astonishment, these  placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized studies found highly statistically-significant results in favor of homeopathy for certain medical conditions.  So I&#8217;m left in a mild quandary: all rational theoretical analysis says it&#8217;s not possible based on current science, but empirical evidence, in repeated studies, suggests it might be.  (Don&#8217;t hold me to this, but my recollection is that there was a mention made of a Cochrane Study on homeopathy, a meta-analysis, which also was positive for homeopathy.)<br />
So, what do people like us do when a series of well-conducted studies, published in a highly reputable medical journal, produce results that CURRENT science indicates is impossible?  Obviously call for more studies, but until then, do we continue to sardonically deride homeopathy (or whatever the subject may be) or temporarily hold our fire?</p>
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