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01-04-2013 | Letter

Homeopathic bias and mis-interpretations

Author: Paolo Bellavite

Published in: Journal of Medicine and the Person | Issue 1/2013

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Editor’s note The letter recently published online by the Journal of Medicine and the Person has elicited a response by Prof Paolo Bellavite on behalf of a group of investigators of the University of Verona. Professor Bellavite felt that some of the claims contained in the letter were misleading and unwarranted and as such they impugned his personal integrity as well as that of his associates. We are happy to publish Bellavite’s response to Chirumbolo and to provide the readership with the opportunity to be aware of all aspects of this important controversy. …

Chirumbolo S (2013) Homeopathy: bias, mis-interpretation and other. J Med Pers. doi:10.1007/s12682-012-0141-y

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Bellavite P (2010) A homeopathic remedy showed reproducible effects in murine behavioural models. J Med Pers 8:143–144CrossRef

Bellavite P, Magnani P, Zanolin E, Conforti A (2011) Homeopathic doses of Gelsemium sempervirens improve the behavior of mice in response to novel environments. Evid Based Complement Altern Med 2011:1–10CrossRef

Bellavite P (2011) Gelsemium sempervirens and animal behavioral models. Front Neurol 2:56. http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuropharmacology/10.3389/fneur.2011.00056/full

Bellavite P, Conforti A, Marzotto M, Magnani P, Cristofoletti M, Olioso D, Zanolin ME (2012) Testing homeopathy in mouse emotional response models: pooled data analysis of two series of studies. Evid Based Complement Altern Med 2012:954374. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2012/954374/

Bellavite P, Magnani P, Conforti A, Marzotto M, Zanolin M (2012) Response to a comment by Luigi Cervo and Valter Torri on: “Dose-effect study of Gelsemium sempervirens in high dilutions on anxiety-related responses in mice” (Magnani P. et al., Psychopharmacology, 2010). Psychopharmacology (Berl) 220:441–442. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-011-2583-y/fulltext.html

Bellavite P, Magnani P, Conforti A, Marzotto M, Zanolin, ME (2011) Effects of high-dilutions in behavioural models: a commentary on critical issues, from reproducibility to plausibility. Int J High Dil Res 10:325–337. http://www.feg.unesp.br/~ojs/index.php/ijhdr/article/view/532/550

Title: Homeopathic bias and mis-interpretations
Author: Paolo Bellavite
Publication date: 01-04-2013
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: Journal of Medicine and the Person / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 2035-9411
Electronic ISSN: 2036-3877
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12682-013-0145-2

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