Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy.

By A. Shang, Karin Huwiler-Müntener, L. Nartey, Peter Jüni, Stephan Dörig, J. Sterne, D. Pewsner, Matthias Egger. The Lancet, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Complementary and alternative medicine

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. John P. A. Ioannidis
2. Julian P. T. Higgins
3. Daniel M. Wegner
4. Francesca Gino

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1. Douglas G. Altman
2. John P. A. Ioannidis
3. Julian P. T. Higgins

Citations in the corpus

• Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (2011, result): “An assumed relation between susceptibility to bias and study size can be exploited by extrapolating within a funnel plot. When funnel plot asymmetry is due to bias rather than substantive heterogeneity, it is usually assumed that results from larger studies are more believable than those from smalle”
• Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced (2015, background): “For example, many reports have shown that homeopathy has no causal effect on patient health other than a placebo effect (Shang et al., 2005; Singh and Ernst, 2008; Ernst, 2015; National Health and Medical Research Council, 2015).”