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0 pointsadrianN12h ago0 comments

Imagine the number of citations you could get for a solid double blind study that showed homeopathy to beat placebo. The only better impact I could imagine would be showing that climate change doesn’t actually exist.

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qsera11h ago· 6 in thread

Mmmm..the question is..who would fund it. And if someone funded it, who would publish it...

BLKNSLVR10h ago

There's enough money in 'crank health' that, if it were possible to publish something that might have a chance of lending some credibility (and thus expanding the breadth of the vulnerable customer base), then I would think it would have been done already.

This implies to me that the counter-evidence is strong and complete enough to discourage 'investment' into such a pursuit.

qsera10h ago

>There's enough money in 'crank health' that,

But there is many order of magnitude more money invested in preventing the publication of something like that..

All the "reputed" journals who gets funded by pharma would not touch such a study, despite any merits it have. This is so apparent to anyone who is not completely oblivious of how the world work that no one in their right mind will even attempt to fund such a study...

adrianNOP10h ago

You get funding for such a study the same way you get funding for anything else: first you run cheap small studies, perhaps in mice, perhaps observational, that show an interesting effect and motivate why you need money to run a proper clinical study.

qsera9h ago

Approximately how old are you? 20s? 30s? 40s? 50s?...

antoniojtorres11h ago

Is this a bit? Please state your point clearly instead of conspiratorial innuendo.

qsera11h ago

I think the point is clear. If it is not clear to you, you are already beyond help...

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