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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI no longer will trust any reports from NCBI, the supposed "health" agency.
Why?
Because they did a "study" of homeopathy and diarrhea.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8165068
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)giving water to treat dehydration?
Is that about the extent of it?
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Is there a follow-up?
--imm
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)Homeopathy does not work in Honduras!
--imm
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)...along with thousands of others. It was published in the American Academy of Pediatrics journal which is one of the most respected on the subject, which for that reason alone is why I suspect NCBI published it.
Although this particular study produced a statistically significant result in the treatment group, subsequent studies found the results not to be repeatable which basically proves it's woo. More data on woo is not a bad thing. More data on woo is a good thing.
Archae
(46,354 posts)If you understand how science works, you know that many, if not most, initial studies cannot be repeated but that does NOT mean that anyone made up the results.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Another is that they simply didn't perform a large enough study to rule out the hypothesis. If you roll two dice enough times, the most common sum will be 7. If you only roll them 10 times, you might come up with something other than 7. That doesn't mean 7 is not the most likely result or that you made up the numbers.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)1. NCBI isn't a "health agency" and it doesn't "report" anything. It's a database for biotechnology and medical information, including indexing scientific journal articles.
2. NCBI didn't "DO" a study of homeopathy. They indexed the journal article that someone else wrote and had published.
3. The article is from the journal "Pediatrics" and was published in 1994.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)......of a preliminary study 20 years ago that concluded that further investigation might be useful, you've decided that they're entirely unreliable? Really??