The BBC's morning news programhad a 'balanced' pair of people on - one was the pro-homeopathy person (a) and the other was someone who understood drugs trials (b).
It ended up with the female interviewer saying that there was obviously still some uncertainty (or something like that) about the issue. Person 'b' stated that there was no uncertainty about it, pointing out the meta-data analysis results which puts all of the trials together and looks at the outcome. The meta-data shows that there is no detectable effect other than the placebo effect.
I think that for all of the genuinely no-hope patients (those that have tried everything and found that nothing at all really works) and still want a pill to take, people should give them sugar pills and tell them that it is a proper drug.
That way, the patient will have lost nothing (they have already given all we have to offer a fair chance) and by bypassing the homeopathist and their expensive pseudo-drugs, we can give the patient what they would have got from the homeopathist but without paying the homeopathy sugar pill factory for it.
Maybe Trebor or Foxes could get the contract for it.
(,
Fri 26 Feb 2010, 15:38,
archived)
It ended up with the female interviewer saying that there was obviously still some uncertainty (or something like that) about the issue. Person 'b' stated that there was no uncertainty about it, pointing out the meta-data analysis results which puts all of the trials together and looks at the outcome. The meta-data shows that there is no detectable effect other than the placebo effect.
I think that for all of the genuinely no-hope patients (those that have tried everything and found that nothing at all really works) and still want a pill to take, people should give them sugar pills and tell them that it is a proper drug.
That way, the patient will have lost nothing (they have already given all we have to offer a fair chance) and by bypassing the homeopathist and their expensive pseudo-drugs, we can give the patient what they would have got from the homeopathist but without paying the homeopathy sugar pill factory for it.
Maybe Trebor or Foxes could get the contract for it.
Damned good idea"I'm going to put you on a course of forfuxsake. Take three times a day, and see if you feel better"
(
Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack.,
Fri 26 Feb 2010, 15:41,
archived)
![[challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif "Challenge Entry: Making Hospitals Dangerous"){kind=small}
