Amy Lansky

Homeopathy for autism? That's certainly not thinking!

Environment oracknows | March 15, 2016

I write about homeopathy fairly regularly on this blog because there is no quackery that is (1) so obviously quackery and (2) such a perfect topic to use to illustrate a lot of issues relevant to medical science, such as issues in clinical trials resulting in false positives and, of course, placebo effects. Basically, homeopathy is an excellent quackery to use to illustrate just how it is that a treatment that, in most cases, is nothing but water can give the appearance of being effective when in fact it is not. Make no mistake, either. Homeopathy is quackery. It is a modality cooked up over…