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To be blunt, no you won’t

• civilized 4y ago
  I do not believe that homeopathy has an effect exceeding placebo, but... it is very easy to verify that the GP comment is at least partially correct: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=homeopathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=homeopathy Click on the link and you'll see that the top few results from PubMed for homeopathy do indeed include meta-analyses. On my side, the very first result is: #1 Homeopathy: meta-analyses of pooled clinical data. Hahn RG. Forsch Komplementmed. 2013;20(5):376-81. doi: 10.1159/000355916. Epub 2013 Oct 17. PMID: 24200828 Free article. Review. I highly doubt that the results depend on the user searching. The thing is, meta-analyses just don't prove as much as they're claimed to. There are meta-analyses "proving" all sorts of nonsense, like ESP: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o... Meta-analysis can't turn garbage into gold. If the studies in a meta-analysis are overwhelmingly low quality, the meta-analysis will also be unreliable.
  • beached_whale 4y ago
    Thats the thing, homeopathy is an expensive placebo and not harmless when taken outside the vacuum. The linked papers are often either saying homeopathy is not efficacious or they are homeopathy groups claiming that the filtering of low quality studies are not correct, ultimately it comes down to belief in magic or greed. but in what is testable, they are expensive placebos often to the exclusion of things that work
• JadeNB 4y ago
  That was three paragraphs of claims. Which are you denying?