The widely touted benefits of homeopathic drugs are merely placebo effects, a new study suggests.
Clinical trials almost always show that patients given inactive sugar pills -- placebos -- do better than untreated patients. It's called the placebo effect.
Clinical trials of homeopathic remedies sometimes show that these treatments work better than placebos. But a new analysis -- comparing published studies of homeopathic drugs to matched, randomly selected studies of medical drugs -- suggests that these apparent homeopathic drug effects are merely placebo effects.
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