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RE: Insurance against Allopathic Medicine?
Well you obviosly didn't read through the sources I kindly provided. These thought experiments you are providing might seem true but either homeopathy uses distilled water or some other method of preparation. You think a scam which wouldn't work would be around for hundreds of years?
I did in fact read your sources, all of which have been addressed by actual publications like the Lancet. The placebo effect has been shown to be extremely powerful, which more than accounts for any scams supposed benefits. Also, in ANY study showing homeopathic remedies efficacious nature, the sample size can be as small as two individuals, which is truly unacceptable as concrete evidence that homeopathic remedies are more effective than more well researched ones. In fact, the same Lancet meta-analysis that you lampoon so vehemently shows that the smaller the sample size, the more likely it the study was to show positive improvement in response to treatment from BOTH traditional and homeopathic remedies. However, as the sample sizes grew, "allopathic" treatments continued to demonstrate efficacy, whereas homeopathic ones shot down to match the results with the control groups.
As for it being around for hundreds of years, there are still cultures that drink the ashes of their dead because they believe it imbues them with the strength of their ancestors. Likewise we have a Flat Earth Society, so lets not use people who believe in something despite all the evidence to the contrary as an example of supposed efficacy.
I'm really glad you're replying! I want to know the truth I can guess as much as you do but how can it a big placebo effect or powerful placebo effect? That just smells like BS to me.
Sure low sample size is a problem but I'm not lampooning no it's the other way around. Mainstream science is often fake science, vaccines and all that BS which never creates real immunity btw it's mostly fake and fradulent but yeah try saying that in public and you'll get stoned by the mob. And I did in fact not lampoon the Lancet Meta analysis, no you can find that one a lot no I'm talking about 1994!
So show me concrete evidence that Homepathy doesn't work not some BS that it just doesn't work because it doesn't.
Here is a metadata analysis of over 1800 research papers by the Australian Government.
https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/publications/attachments/cam02a_information_paper.pdf
Now let me be clear, preventative medicine is paramount to a sustainable, healthy society. However, that being said, I believe that it is a disservice to society to champion methodologies which are immoral and harmful. If anything is fake science, homeopathy fits the bill.
As for the placebo effect there are numerous studies which have been scratched because they were confounded by the placebo effect. However, an article for your consideration:
https://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon