Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the market, FDA says

Re:Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the marke... by consumer451 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:34AM (#38623825)

I would agree, I mean of course.

Except, doesn’t the placebo effect have something like a 50% efficacy rate for many ills? I always felt like that can’t be right. Is it?

I had figured that this was how homeopathy “worked.”

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Re:Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the marke... by mips_r4300i on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:00AM (#38624049)

A common number for improvements in outcome by placebo is typically 20%. Significant, but not a game changer.

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Re:Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the marke... by heisenzombie on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:07PM (#38631482)

Also, I think the placebo effect is popularly misunderstood:

https://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-wea...

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Re:Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the marke... by mips_r4300i on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:47PM (#38632221)

Thanks for that article, it confirms what I'd long suspected. The bit about traffic cameras is a good one, and the very same problem of trying to judge health supplements efficacy without RCTs.

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Re:Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the marke... by consumer451 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:37PM (#38633074)

Too late to edit, but I just to make clear that I think homeopathy is a total scam.

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