The placebo argument (2005)

Are the clinical effects of homeopathy placebo effects?

An article in the UK medical journal The Lancet, published in 2005 (1), had far-reaching consequences for homeopathy. It led to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy and, ultimately, to the Homeopathy Review by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC), published in 2015.

Dr Peter Fisher (deceased), then Director of Research, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (now: Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine), published a critique of the Lancet in 2006: Homeopathy-and-The-Lancet

(1)
The Lancet, Volume 366, No. 9487, p726–732, 27 August 2005: Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy. The abstract can be viewed here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67177-2/abstract

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