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Scientist declares homeopathy a "therapeutic dead-end"

Eye-opening results for homeopathy clients - ineffective as a treatment method

19-Feb-2016

Key points from article :

Homeopathy is no more effective than placebo drugs.

Homeopathy is an alternative medicine based on the idea of diluting a substance in water.

Due to this dilution there is none or almost none of the original substance left.

No reliable evidence from research in humans that homeopathy was effective for 68 illnesses.

57 systematic reviews containing 176 individual studies concluded this.

Systematic review by National Health and Medical Research Council.

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Paul Glasziou

Professor of Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University

The BMJ

Publisher of more than 70 medical and allied science journals

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