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Journeys in the country of the blind: entanglement theory and the effects of blinding on trials of homeopathy and homeopathic provings.

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Authors: Milgrom LR

Year

2007

Paper ID

12728

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Peer-reviewed

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The idea of quantum entanglement is borrowed from physics and developed into an algebraic argument to explain how double-blinding randomized controlled trials could lead to failure to provide unequivocal evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy, and inability to distinguish proving and placebo groups in homeopathic pathogenic trials. By analogy with the famous double-slit experiment of quantum physics, and more modern notions of quantum information processing, these failings are understood as blinding causing information loss resulting from a kind of quantum superposition between the remedy and placebo.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nel062 [2] Publisher https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17342236/

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