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Treating Leick with like: response to criticisms of the use of entanglement to illustrate homeopathy.

Milgrom LR

Homeopathy Research Institute, 63 Vale Road, London N4 1PP, UK. lionel.milgrom@hotmail.com

In criticising papers which recently appeared in Homeopathy, Leick claims that no double blind randomised clinical trials (DBRCTs) show that homeopathy is efficacious, and that specific effects of substances diluted beyond Avogadro's limit are implausible. He states that generalised entanglement models should be able to improve the design of experiments to test ultra-high dilutions, and disparages the authors' understandings of quantum physics. The paper responds to those criticisms. Several DBRCTs have shown that homeopathy has effects which are not due to placebo and these are now supported by preclinical work. This area of theory is in its infancy and it is unreasonable to expect it to have generated experiments at this stage. The authors have used accepted interpretations of quantum theory: Leick's view is coloured by skepticism concerning homeopathy.

Published 28 April 2008 in Homeopathy, 97(2): 96-9.
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