Scientific Studies
FACT 28: In 2005 World Health Organisation
brought out a draft report which showed
homeopathy was beneficial causing Big Pharma to
panic and the Lancet to bring out an editorial
entitled ‘The End of Homeopathy’.
FACT 29: In 2005 the Lancet tried to destroy
homeopathy but were only looking at 8
inconclusive trials out of 110 of which 102 were
positive. This was a fraudulent analysis.
"The meta-analysis at the centre of the
controversy is based on 110 placebo-controlled
clinical trials of homeopathy and 110 clinical
trials of allopathy (conventional medicine),
which are said to be matched. These were reduced
to 21 trials of homeopathy and 9 of conventional
medicine of ‘higher quality’ and further reduced
to 8 and 6 trials, respectively, which were
‘larger, higher quality’. The final analysis
which concluded that ‘the clinical effects of
homoeopathy are placebo effects’ was based on
just the eight ‘larger, higher quality’ clinical
trials of homeopathy. The Lancet's press release
did not mention this, instead giving the
impression that the conclusions were based on all 110 trials."
<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1375230>
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1375230
FACT 30: There have been many clinical trials
that prove homeopathy works. In the past 24
years there have been more than 180 controlled,
and 118 randomized, trials into homeopathy, which
were analysed by four separate meta-analyses. In
each case, the researchers concluded that the
benefits of homeopathy went far beyond that which
could be explained purely by the placebo effect.
FACT 31: The Bristol Homeopathic Hospital
carried out a study published in November 2005 of
6500 patients receiving homeopathic
treatment. There was an overall improvement in
health of 70% of
them.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4454856.stm>
BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | New study is boost to homoeopathy
FACT 32: Homeopathy can never be properly tested
through double blind randomised trials because
each prescription is individualised as every
patient is unique. Therefore 10 people with
arthritis, for example, may all need a different homeopathic medicine.
FACT 33: Homeopathic medicines are not tested on animals.
FACT 34: Homeopathic medicines work even better
on animals and babies than on adults, proving this cannot be placebo.
FACT 35: Scientists agree that if and when
homeopathy is accepted by the scientific
community it will turn established science on its head.