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I chose not to provide my own sources so I wouldn't be accused of cherry-picking. Instead I showed how anyone could find the evidence for themselves, if they so choose. Which is to say, simply go to pubmed and type in homeopathy. You'll find plenty of peer-reviewed literature, meta-analyses even, suggesting an effect for homeopathy greater than just placebo (within limited domains of application, of course)

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That might be understandable, but I'm a lazy skeptic and don't want to make your argument for you. You made the claim, why must I support it?

If I find a meta analysis that agrees with your claim, but has obvious methodological flaws you could simply say "you picked the wrong one" or "that wasn't one of the limited domains of application".

I did as you asked anyway, in my pubmed search 5 out of the top 10 results are by the same author and are published in the journal "Homeopathy". I have no doubt there are many positive studies in that journal, just as there are many true sasquatch sightings in "Sasquatch Magazine".

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