tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post1748139582996212452..comments2024-01-11T10:42:04.473+00:00Comments on Hawk/Handsaw: Homeopathy paper publishedPaul Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101626906004768474noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-10708006437824021282020-04-16T11:54:26.707+01:002020-04-16T11:54:26.707+01:00Masters Homeoapthy Appreciate you Informative blog...<br />Masters Homeoapthy Appreciate you Informative blog. 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It can also occur when smaller studies show larger effect just because they were done in a condition with high treatment effects, and thus requiring smaller patient numbers</B>.<BR/><BR/>This is technically true, but a bit of a cop-out. It's true that if there were a treatment which was suspected to have a dramatic effect, people might (not unreasonably) decide to run a small trial on it knowing that, if there is a big effect, they would detect it despite the small sample size.<BR/><BR/>Such trials would look like small positive (i.e. "probably just noise") on a funnel plot although in fact they'd be legit.<BR/><BR/>However in this case the argument is ridiculous, because no-one could reasonably assume that any homeopathic treatment has a dramatic effect vs. placebo. And if they <I>unreasonably</I> assumed that, the argument falls apart.<BR/><BR/>If we were dealing with, say, RCTs of surgical interventions or experimental antibiotics, they would have a point.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-5680608721368186862009-04-09T08:35:00.000+01:002009-04-09T08:35:00.000+01:00Something else that all this suggests is that Home...Something else that all this suggests is that <I>Homeopathy's</I> reviewers had also failed to understand the Shang paper. That's taking the "peer" bit of peer-review a bit too far.<BR/><BR/>The criticism that some recent papers in <I>Homeopathy</I> have received is also interesting in the context of Caulfield and DeBow: A systematic review of how homeopathy is represented in conventional and CAM peer reviewed journals BMC Complement Altern Med. 2005; 5: 12. They found that 69% of articles in mainstream medical journals reported negative findings compared to 30% of those in CAM journals, and concluded from this that "a publication bias against homeopathy exists in mainstream journals" (note the quotation from Cucherat et al about "the belief of many non-homeopathic physicians"). Caulfield and DeBow note that they "did not critique the quality of the study" and suggest that higher quality studies might be more likely to be published in "more well known conventional journals".Mojonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-79522283655609212972009-04-08T18:01:00.000+01:002009-04-08T18:01:00.000+01:00Wonderful demolition, Paul!I wonder if you submitt...Wonderful demolition, Paul!<BR/><BR/>I wonder if you submitted this rebuttal to their comic, they'd publish it?Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10419783839561343514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-62312004848869862792009-04-08T16:50:00.000+01:002009-04-08T16:50:00.000+01:00Well done, that man.Very thoroughWell done, that man.<BR/>Very thoroughtom pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-27735297165698948282009-04-08T16:14:00.000+01:002009-04-08T16:14:00.000+01:00Oops, it seems that some stray html had borked par...Oops, it seems that some stray html had borked paragraphs 5 and 6 of this post. Fixed now.Paul Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18101626906004768474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-69160786995719348352009-04-08T15:55:00.000+01:002009-04-08T15:55:00.000+01:00“an exercise in evasion and obfuscation”That shoul...“an exercise in evasion and obfuscation”<BR/><BR/>That should be the subtitle of Homeopathy.phayesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477385342066275897.post-39433739505817391802009-04-08T14:35:00.000+01:002009-04-08T14:35:00.000+01:00Well-argued and congratulations.Their response is ...Well-argued and congratulations.<BR/><BR/>Their response is more than a little embarrassing so you are more than a little admirably restrained in your rebuttals and discussion.HolfordWatchhttp://holfordwatch.infonoreply@blogger.com