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How long does this last? Because I'm sure a piece of cake and lots of things can have a nice subjective transient effect. That does not mean it "improves the mood states". This is ridiculous.

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They do not even talk about regression to the mean, which is a huge factor in what is called the "placebo effect", they've only selected perceptive causes for placebo effect, that tells how biased they are.

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I'm afraid the use of the Chalder fatigue scale could muddle the results. It seems so unreliable and ineffective to evaluate anything seriously.

"The PACE trial is probably the largest intervention trial in psychology ever done in Britain" I hadn't realised that...

I had never heard of (or don't recall) the therapeutic allegiance. Very interesting https://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12991-015-0063-1 Thanks @Brian Hughes

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This may be the case. But even if we take the view that CFS is a phobia, there's still a big problem if your questionaire results are not in line with what happens IRL. I can't imagine that a trial meant to treat spider phobia would be considered successful with only questionaires asking "Do...

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No. That's not a matter of disagreement. Bring proofs of what you're asserting. The profits made by Boiron are huge. Their research credits are way lower than any other pharmaceutical companies (nearly non existing), and the raw materials they use are cheap (water and sugar). That's one of the...

Lol The Boiron family, who own the biggest homeopathy company settled in Lyon, are amongst the 100 richest families in France.

I'm not aware of any clinical trial for homeopathic remedies for teething babies, but no trial has ever found homeopathy effective, nor does its rational stand. To prove it has any effect on teething pain, you'd need something more convincing than someone's observations, which are, as you...

My personal situation is OK, because I've met understanding doctors, but it's very difficult for a lot of people.

There are no guidelines for ME nor CFS in France, where ME/CFS is often not considered as an autonomous entity (some kind of depression, or somatisation, or something close to fibromyalgia). CFS is mentionned in the Fibromyalgia guidelines (2010) writen by the Haute Autorité de la Santé (HAS)...

Anyone who maintains on a blanket basis that homeopathy works should watch a teething baby given a fake homeopatic remedy containing sugar.

Isn't hope a major component of all the therapies that are based on a kind of "coué method" ? And we've known since the 19th century it doesn't last.

http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/science-journalism-hold-the-hype FYI: it's not the Chris Chambers working on ME.