{"id":80,"date":"2013-05-16T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2015-09-21T01:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:20:56","slug":"chemist-defends-homeopathy-bmj-rcts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/index.php\/chemist-defends-homeopathy-bmj-rcts\/","title":{"rendered":"A highly qualified chemist defends homeopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Dr Lionel R Milgrom BSc, MSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, LCH, MARH, RHom has the credentials which should be acceptable to the science police so read his article <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/345\/bmj.e6184\/rr\/642461\" target=\"_blank\">Good Medicine: Homeopathy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the <em>British Medical Journal online<\/em>. He defends Homeopathy but also points out problems with science&#8217;s gold standard verification model, Randomised Control Trials. Of course he is not the first to show problems with RCTs. A lengthy article in the <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em> about 4 years ago did as did the historian of medical thinking, Harris Coulter in his 4 volume history <em>Divided Legacy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lionel R Milgrom BSc, MSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, LCH, MARH, RHom has the credentials which should be acceptable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12,14,8],"tags":[140,7],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-homeopathy","category-science","category-scientific-research","tag-randomised-clinical-trials","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Lionel R Milgrom BSc, MSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, LCH, MARH, RHom has the credentials which should be acceptable to the science police so read his article Good Medicine: Homeopathy published in the British Medical Journal online. 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