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>It's not even something that merits "further study." Any study you care to run will demonstrate that homeopathy does fuckall compared to placebo. Which is usually where people like me start saying "yeah, but 'placebo' doesn't mean 'nothing' so maybe what we should be doing is studying this here 'placebo effect' because if 'sham medicine' gives you even half the efficacy with none of the side effects, maybe we should start prescribing more 'sham medicine' as a first line of defense."
I won't light the match. :) Oddly some anti-depressants aren't significantly better than placebo, but they come with bonus side-effects.
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080227/antidepress... Somewhere I erroneously heard that prescription of placebo wasn't allowed in the US, but it seems that many doctors use it: http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080103/almo...