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Even scams like homeopathy can be useful via the placebo effect, at least for disorders where the placebo effect is significant.

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I understand that to be true, but I’ve also read recently that the placebo effect is largely overstated.

I think I’m doubly bitter about homeopathy in particular because it’s available on the NHS. My tax money is going to fraudsters.

> Homeopathy isn't widely available on the NHS. In 2017, NHS England recommended that GPs and other prescribers should stop providing it. [0]

Luckily this is no longer the case (in general)!

[0] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Homeopathy/

How on earth did the providers of such convince the NHS? They are by large considered quacks and has been ridiculed on state TV (NRK, our BBC) numerous times.

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