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Homeopathy and Pseudoscience

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Difference between Homeopathy and Pseudoscience

Homeopathy vs. Pseudoscience

Homeopathy or homœopathy is a system of alternative medicine developed in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.

Similarities between Homeopathy and Pseudoscience

Homeopathy and Pseudoscience have 15 things in common (in Unionpedia): Blinded experiment, Homeopathy, Hypothesis, Johns Hopkins University Press, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, Methodology, New Age, Placebo, Quackery, Scientific literacy, Selection bias, Statistical significance, Theory of relativity, United States, Vaccine controversies.

Blinded experiment

A blind or blinded-experiment is an experiment in which information about the test is masked (kept) from the participant, to reduce or eliminate bias, until after a trial outcome is known.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homœopathy is a system of alternative medicine developed in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.

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Hypothesis

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

This is a list of topics that have, at one point or another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.

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Methodology

Methodology is the systematic, theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study.

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New Age

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.

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Placebo

A placebo is a substance or treatment of no intended therapeutic value.

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Quackery

Quackery or health fraud is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.

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Scientific literacy

Scientific literacy or Science literacy encompasses written, numerical, and digital literacy as they pertain to understanding science, its methodology, observations, and theories.

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Selection bias

Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed.

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Statistical significance

In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis.

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Theory of relativity

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vaccine controversies

Vaccine controversies have occurred since almost 80 years before the terms vaccine and vaccination were introduced, and continue to this day.

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Homeopathy and Pseudoscience Comparison

Homeopathy has 306 relations, while Pseudoscience has 220. As they have in common 15, the Jaccard index is 2.85% = 15 / (306 + 220).

References

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