Treating Leick with like: response to criticisms of the use of entanglement to illustrate homeopathy

Homeopathy

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 96-99

  Milgrom, Lionel R ^a  

^a Homeopathy Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Double blind randomised clinical trials; Homeopathy; Leick; Quantum entanglement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISTEMOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; QUANTUM THEORY;

HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; MATERIA MEDICA; METAPHOR; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLACEBO EFFECT; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYSTEMS THEORY; WATER;

EID: 42649097950     PISSN: 14754916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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