Conventional Treatment Effectiveness

In response to claims that homeopathy is a discredited system with no evidence showing effectiveness beyond placebo effect…

Letter to the Editor

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Dear Editor,
I recently read with interest the (story, op-ed piece, letter-to-the-editor) about homeopathy published in (or on) your (paper, website, blog).  Sadly, the piece failed to accurately report the facts about the subject.

Did you know that The British Medical Journal's "Clinical Evidence" analyzed common conventional medical treatments to evaluate which have evidence of effectiveness (BMJ, 2007). They reviewed approximately 2,500 treatments and found:

• 13 percent were found to be beneficial
• 23 percent were likely to be beneficial
• Eight percent were as likely to be harmful as beneficial
• Six percent were unlikely to be beneficial
• Four percent were likely to be harmful or ineffective.
• 46 percent were unknown whether they were efficacious or harmful

Now there are literally hundreds of high quality, basic science, pre-clinical and clinical peer-reviewed studies showing that homeopathy works.  An abbreviated list of those studies can be found at www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org  under “Articles”, “Research”, “Homeopathy Research Evidence”. 

So which system lacks evidence of effectiveness???

Sincerely,