Reply #50: There have been double-blind studies of homeopathy [View All]

Homeopathic double-blind studies are expensive because they require complete casetakings of each participant and each is given a remedy tailored to their symptom picture. Any other means of doing it would be an inaccurate test of homeopathic practice. But single remedy double-blinds have nevertheless been done with the expected poor results.
Studies comparing homeopathic remedies to placebos for arthritis, diarrhea, and other complaints have demonstrated their effectiveness. But I think the double-blind study is very limiting in terms of what you learn. You said "The human body is a fantastically complex system" yet we make judgments about what new compounds we are releasing to the populace after a limited study of it's effect on a small group of people. By some counts, iatrogenic illness is the third highest cause of death in this country. And it's not always mistakes. I think we forget how complex the body is when we test these dangerous substances in such a fashion, comforted by the notion that it's "scientific."