Faith is belief in something you know ain't so
I had a letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald today, responding to an earlier letter from a bloke whose sneezing cleared up after taking a homeopathic "remedy".
Double-blind faith
I'm glad Jim Gentles's sneezing cleared up, but anecdote does not equal data. Homeopathy has never been shown to work better than placebo in a properly conducted, double-blind trial, and there is no getting around that.
Tom Goodfellow Cherrybrook
Hmm, not sure about that "faith" in the heading, the point is that faith is belief in something without decent evidence and I was suggesting that evidence is the key thing. Oh well.
(Liz - forgive me)
posted by Tom Goodfellow @ 2:51 PM
3 Comments:
Hello Tom.......with a name like Goodfellow you have to be a "good read"
Ps.....my maiden name was Goodfellow dad from Scotland.
cheers Lee-ann
i like this saying, but you missed a bit - it goes 'the plural of anecdote is not data'
You're right Rob, oh well, the point was made.
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