Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-23-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Does Homeopathy Work? A simple explanation.
  (tags: healthcare homeopathy skepticism)
• Microsoft release their new "Choose what browser you want to run" page.
  I like the way that the options change order randomly each time.
  (tags: browsers microsoft windows)

Comments

[andrewducker]

That's not homeopathy working - because a glass of water would have the same effect. So you could claim that "water works" or "a glass of diet coke works". I'd say that something has to work better than the placebo effect for it to actually be defined as working.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

But a person who believes in homeopathy would not have the same belief in a glass of water or a glass of coke. So they would not have the same effect.

I'd say that something has to work better than the placebo effect for it to actually be defined as working.

I don't disagree. But the placebo effect is fascinating.

[andrewducker]

It is fascinating (as is the associated nocebo response). But we shouldn't be lying to people for their own good.