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Originally Posted by Wild at heart
It always surprises me when people say that homeopathy is no more effective than placebo, so it is therefore worthless. I view the placebo effect as huge, and fantastic and that anything that helps us to harness the effect is very worthwhile.
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My objections come down to what I consider to be a dishonest or erroneous attribution of cause-and-effect and the underlying mechanism behind the change or improvement. In my experience, practitioners are rarely honest about what we know and don't know, and I have rarely had a practitioner be transparent about the placebo effect. (My therapist was an exception to that, as was my GP, which is probably why I stuck with both of them.)
I, too, am all for harnessing the body's ability to heal itself. I just ask for honesty and transparency about what it is you're selling. Anything else borders on (or crosses over) into fraud, in my opinion.