13 Things That Don't Make Sense (30 page)

13. HOMEOPATHY

p. 181	According to the World Health Organization : Bulletin of the World Health Organization 77 (1999): 160.
p. 183	Benveniste convinced the journal Nature: Nature 333 (1988): 816.
p. 183	Nature published a critique : Nature 334 (1988): 291.
p. 183	“incredibly surprised ”: L. Milgrom, “Thanks for the Memory,” Guardian , March 15, 2001.
p. 184	The trial … took place in four different laboratories : Inflammation Research 50 (2001): 47.
p. 185	a team of scientists failed to replicate : See http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopathy. shtml .
p. 185	she later distanced herself : See http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,55 .
p. 185	A study by Adrian Guggisberg : Complementary Therapies in Medicine 13, no. 2 (2005): 91.
p. 186	Dylan Evans attributes . . . the placebo effect : D. Evans, Placebo (London: Harper Collins, 2003), p. 149.
p. 186	a 1997 meta-analysis published in the Lancet: Lancet 350 (1997): 834.
p. 186	Robert L. Park uses the same argument : R. Park, Voodoo Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 57.
p. 187	At least sixty-four : See http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/ .
p. 188	His review article reads like a political address : Nature Reviews (Molecular Cell Biology) 7, no. 11 (2006): 861.
p. 189	a group of German researchers : Angewandte Chemie (international edition) 40 (2001): 1808.
p. 189	it becomes broken up into distinct beads : Journal of Chemical Physics 120 (2004): 5867.
p. 189	Anders Nilsson published a paper : Science 304 (2004): 995.
p. 191	Roy advocates using silver as an antibiotic : Materials Research Innovations 11, no. 1 (2007): 3.
p. 191	repeatedly separated fools and their money : The FDA regulation on the subject is at: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/10apr20061500/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/aprqtr/pdf/21cfr310.548.pdf .
p. 192	Its editorial article : Lancet 366 (2005): 690.
p. 192	an article published in the same issue : Ibid., p. 726.
p. 192	“flawed” study : Ibid., p. 2081.
p. 192	Klaus Linde and Wayne Jonas had published : Lancet 350 (1997): 834.
p. 193	But then Jonas : Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11, no. 5 (2005): 813.
p. 194	A six-month study : Rheumatology 40 (2001): 1052.
p. 201	This dangerous ideal . . . “posthumous ostracism” : S. Land, “The Two Faces of Homoeopathy,” British Homoeopathic Journal , January 1985, p. 49.

EPILOGUE

p. 204	J. Donald Fernie made a wry observation : Publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 81 (1969): 707.
p. 205	Horgan argued that science is, essentially, finished : J. Horgan, The End of Science (Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley, 1996), p. 1.
p. 206	Simon White has, for example, suggested : Reports on Progress in Physics 70 (2007): 883.
p. 208	The widespread acceptance . . . is unwarranted : R. Laughlin, A Different Universe (New York: Basic Books, 2005), p. 211.
p. 209	very young or very new : T. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 151.
p. 210	“Who are we?” : E. Schrödinger, Science and Humanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951).

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