Placebos can work – evidently some people are desperate to believeMore and more,I realise our lives are based on faith. Not in a goddy sense, more a domestic, or personal,dull-edged way. Relationships, for example: faith. The economy: faith. Health: faith. I reach to this having spent some time recently thinking approximately placebos, or as I watch ministers consider whether homeopathy should be keep on a prescription “black list”. I don’t believe in homeopathy,and I say that as someone who really loves little sugary sweets.
Every ounce of science says there is no way it works, there is no way that diluting an ingredient until there are no molecules left, and diluting it so extremely that it equates to one molecule of the substance in a sea whose diameter is “roughly the distance from the soil to the sun”,will cure what ails you. There is no evidence that homeopathy will help your eczema, or your hay fever, or your ear infection.
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Source: theguardian.com