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Perennial theme of Ben Goldacre of "Bad Science". Quite worrying.


Even on this forum people will often include a link to a scientific-sounding article to prove a point that quite often when one actually takes the trouble to read it and the greater trouble of following up the research basis, turns out to be questionable or even nonsense. But most people don't have the time, so it's a good way of winning an argument. A good recent example was a homeopathic medicine salesperson with a link to an article that supposedly proved the efficacy of homeopathy but when you actually read it admitted that testers had to abandon best practice standards in order to do so. The power of the written word...!

Spot on Moos - I counter-argued with the homeopathic person when she advised such treatment for babies/children. She provided a link to 'research' supporting such treatments but this was funded by homeopathic companies. In the end admin removed her post.

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