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Peer-reviewed homeopathy study sparks uproar in Italy

Advocates of homeopathy say that the rat study is evidence of the practice’s efficacy, but some scientists have cast doubt on the paper.
  1. Giorgia Guglielmi
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A study1 that claims to show that a homeopathic treatment can ease pain in rats has caused uproar after it was published in a peer-reviewed journal. Groups that promote homeopathy in Italy, where there is currently a debate about how to label homeopathic remedies, have held the study up as evidence that the practice works. But several researchers have cast doubt on its claims.

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Nature 562, 173-174 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06967-0

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