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The effect of homeopathy disappears if you look only at large, good trials; whereas the conventional medicines' effect is still there, ... This means there is no difference between placebo and homeopathic remedies.

Matthias Egger
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The big bulk of the response to anti-depressants is the placebo response. I don't think these studies are very informative.

Irving Kirsch
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No convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Matthias Egger
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Conventional medicine interventions did better than placebo, whereas the homeopathy interventions basically did the same as placebo.

Matthias Egger
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There is sometimes a placebo effect when it comes to bottled waters. You feel that you're doing something special for yourself.

Lisa Dorfman
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What one would have expected is that large studies of high quality would have shown an effect, which wasn't the case for homeopathy. This means that clinical effects of homeopathy are placebo effects.

Matthias Egger
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Saw palmetto was no better than placebo in changing symptoms for this condition.

Stephen Bent
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We don't know what that means yet. We're hoping that means the ginger is doing something really good, and we have had a few participants say they felt they could decrease their other medications while they were in the study. Whether that's a placebo effect or from the ginger, we'll have to wait until the study ends.

Suzanna Zick
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