Homeopathy, according to Wikipedia: If that doesn't smack of pseudoscientific bullshit, I don't know what does. A similar idea went into vaccines, but it's really apples to oranges. It sucks that you don't have an identical twin that got into an identical accident with an identical wife who applied arnica to neither leg, or the leg opposite your arnica'd leg. That would be much more conclusive, but even then, not statistically conclusive. That's what people can't grasp, and it blows my mind. Even more simply, the idea of a control group and the rationale behind a double-blind study. Do they not read articles or listen to the radio, where these concepts are discussed from time to time? No, they do. I'm trying to locate the disconnect, and coming up empty....a form of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), whereby a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people.
The one with the arnica didn't bruise.