Playing Chess with a Pigeon

Using Reason and Logic to Argue with Ignorant People Is a Futile Exercise

Off and on tremendously biased, falsified, flawed and misinterpreted articles misleading the science and aimed at defaming homeopathy are published. A recent interview on the YouTube of the much-hyped authors of a paper titled ‘Dangerous Placebo During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Series of Homoeopathic Arsenicum Album-Induced Liver Injury’ (published by Theruvath et al.[1] DOI: 10.7759/cureus.26062) was much publicised. Both the paper and interview evoked much applause from the opponents of homoeopathy and those having a proclivity to criticise homoeopathy. The authors have tried to draw a circle around a gunshot mark and claiming to be ace shooters and that gunshot mark is Arsenicum album 30C (AA30C), around which the whole story is built up.

Publication History

Article published online:
30 June 2023

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