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CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

Dancer posted:

This may only be marginally related to the topic of the thread, but it's still worth sharing: Ben Goldacre on the placebo effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs
(there's also a 20 minute version of that talk out there, which I forget how to find, but if you do, it's worth it)

On topic, his book "Bad Science" goes into a lot of the topics raised in this thread. In short: if homeopaths weren't doing something wrong, they probably wouldn't be abusing the legal system to shut down scientific dissent all over the globe. Also they're murdering Africans en mass by exploiting weak third world governments, so there's that.

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