Gimpyblog,
There are lots of studies showing that hoemopathy *does* work. Have
you read any of them, and are you willing to? If you are willing to
read "positive" studies (and please, of course, critique carefully), we
can give you numerous sources. If I were a "study-reader" myself I'd
toss out a few references; since I am not, I offer instead to locate
references for you, *if* you express willingness to read them.

As far as the "placebo" question, again, please examine specific cases,
and the practices of homeopaths, to evaluate whether that idea stands
up. In fact, it doesn't.

Below:

On Dec 31, 2007, at 4:55 AM, homeolist (AT) otherhealth (DOT) com wrote:

>
> OK Mr McCabe, you think that homeopathy does work. Well prove it to
> the
> standards required of conventional medicine. That really is the root
> of
> all this arguing over homeopathy. There are plenty of people out there
> who have argued that homeopathy may have a harmless, if not entirely
> valid, role to play in healthcare as a form of sympathetic placebo.
> The
> problem they have with homeopathy is that it makes grand claims without
> sufficient supporting evidence. Where are the proper controlled trials
> on homeopathy?

Is this a request for references? And more importantly, if *provided*
those references, will you *read* the studies?
Shannon