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Presentiment or entanglement? An alternative explanation for apparent entanglement in provings

Presentiment or entanglement? An alternative explanation for apparent entanglement in provings
Presentiment or entanglement? An alternative explanation for apparent entanglement in provings
A number of authors have recently discussed the possible role entanglement in homeopathy. Walach et al have published a homeopathic proving which they interpreted as demonstrating entanglement between placebo and verum groups in a proving. The lack of a ‘run-in’ period was a weakness of this trial.
We present further results of our proving of Belladonna which show that subjects who reported symptoms during the placebo run-in period (‘presentiment provers’) were more likely to report symptoms during the treatment period. This data suggests and the observations of Walach et al may be explicable by conventional mechanisms including differential reporting and constitutional type
proving, entanglement, presentiment privers, belladonna
1475-4916
92 -95
Lewith, G.T.
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Brien, Sarah
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Hyland, Michael E.
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Lewith, G.T.
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Brien, Sarah
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Hyland, Michael E.
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Lewith, G.T., Brien, Sarah and Hyland, Michael E. (2005) Presentiment or entanglement? An alternative explanation for apparent entanglement in provings. Homeopathy, 94 (2), 92 -95. (doi:10.1016/j.homp.2005.02.005).

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Abstract

A number of authors have recently discussed the possible role entanglement in homeopathy. Walach et al have published a homeopathic proving which they interpreted as demonstrating entanglement between placebo and verum groups in a proving. The lack of a ‘run-in’ period was a weakness of this trial.
We present further results of our proving of Belladonna which show that subjects who reported symptoms during the placebo run-in period (‘presentiment provers’) were more likely to report symptoms during the treatment period. This data suggests and the observations of Walach et al may be explicable by conventional mechanisms including differential reporting and constitutional type

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Published date: 2005
Keywords: proving, entanglement, presentiment privers, belladonna

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Local EPrints ID: 24382
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/24382
ISSN: 1475-4916
PURE UUID: 4dea0aac-9960-4641-a50b-4595bd41c60f
ORCID for Sarah Brien: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1120-2364

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Date deposited: 29 Mar 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:19

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Author: G.T. Lewith
Author: Sarah Brien ORCID iD
Author: Michael E. Hyland

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