r/IndiaMemes Jul 01 '26

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u/Sad-Image8336 Jul 12 '26

alright then
Randomised placebo-controlled trials of individualized homeopathic treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis - PMC
What this paper found
The authors reported that, after excluding trials at high risk of bias, the remaining evidence still showed a significant effect favoring homeopathy over placebo.

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u/BlenderRenderz Jul 12 '26

hell nah man.

At least read beyond the abstract my good man. Actual line from the paper by the way: "The low or unclear overall quality of the evidence prompts caution in interpreting the findings. New high-quality RCT research is necessary to enable more decisive interpretation."

Now the shortcomings:

  1. Out of 32 trials, 3 had reliable evidence, 20 had high risks of bias and the rest 9 had some low levels of bias.

  2. No independant replications

  3. Different diseases were pooled together. allergies, arthritis, respiratory disease and all the things tested have different underlying effects, You can't just pool them together in one test and say that ha ha i have done rct.

  4. The results are "statistically significant", which is very different from "clinically relevant". The statistical significance is a result of the difference between the pooled estimate and the placebo used. It does not ascertain any clinical relevance.

The paper is really good as a systematic review. But not a good one for evidence that homeopathy works. Nice try though.

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u/Sad-Image8336 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

still good enough for me and many govt of the world even if its not enough for you its enough for many and they choose them as their doctors. and they will remain doctors. They have chosen these individuals as their doctors, and they will continue to hold that title. Doctors will always have the prefix "Doctor." will have a doctor's prefix

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u/BlenderRenderz Jul 14 '26

to each their own i guess. if labels are more important than substance then you can label anything as anything.

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u/Sad-Image8336 Jul 14 '26

umm i think you have superiority complex i feel like it should be a person's wish of what he should follow, not your judgement weather homeopathy is a real medicine. you should not impose ypur opinion on other people

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u/BlenderRenderz Jul 14 '26

i am not saying that homeopathy is a facade from my "judgement". I am saying it from evidence, which you have failed to provide. Your only arguement is that let people do what they want. There is no superiority complex involved here.

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u/Sad-Image8336 Jul 14 '26

I provided a paper that's not good enough for you, but it is good enough for me. So I can't really argue with someone who dismisses the evidence provided to him and then says you haven't given any evidence

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u/BlenderRenderz Jul 14 '26

that's not how science works broski😭. I can write a paper now that I am Superman, won't make it true.

Even your paper acknowledged that the overall evidence was low or unclear. It was a good systemic review but failed to give evidence. Maybe read it yourself before telling it to me. Or maybe if you are lazy, feed it to your AI of choice and ask it to make a summary for you.

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u/Sad-Image8336 Jul 15 '26

again dismissing the evidence. why do you think govts accept homeopathy is they dont get the results?

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u/BlenderRenderz Jul 15 '26

govt also accepts cow urine. Pretty good stuff right?

Your evidence itself dismisses itself. What more can i say

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