Placebo beat the remedy in the sense that David as underdog beats Goliath, even if battle ends in a truce. BMJ, BJ Clin. Overall, the quality was disappointing. Sometimes only some of several interventions, measurements of outcome, or data presentations met the criteria. Only 23 scored greater, and 84 less than 55 for the maximum of 100 for quality .
Publication bias is an important problem .
Only 17 described the method of randomisation . Whilst 75 were double blind trials, placebo was 'described' as indistinguishable in only 31 . Patients have many ways to break the code, which might explain any differences in favour of homoeopathy. Double blinding was not checked in any trial of homoeopathy . They also acknowledged the contributions of the documentational centres of the laboratories of Boiron, Dolisos and Heel.