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Is government spending on homeopathy justified?
British Ministers are considering stopping government funding for homeopathy, on which it spends the equivalent of $6 million a year. But does the placebo effect alone justify the spending? Simon Singh is a well known science writer and author of a book challenging homeopathy.
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