About: Neil D. Shere
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- Neil D. Shere Neil is a Board Certified clinical social worker, specializing in psychotherapy with children, individual therapy with adults, and marital counseling. Neil has worked as a therapist, supervisor, and administrator in the public schools, in family service and mental health agencies.Presently, Neil works in his own practice, Neil D. Shere & Associates, in suburbs near Chicago. Neil also serves voluntarily with the LAN (Local Area Network), a local, state-sponsored inter-agency committee that awards grants to families of children experiencing emotional and behavioral problems and situational distress.
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Homeopathy: The Scientific Proofs of Efficacy
Publisher: 2002. Milan, Guna S.r.l. Reviewed By: Neil D. Shere ——————————————– This slender volume was compiled through the joint efforts of Guna S.r.l., Italy’s largest homeopathic pharmaceutical company, and AIOT (Associazione Medica Italiana di Omotossicologia), a professional medical association – Italy’s largest such association for nonconventional physicians. Published in 2002... -
Proving Homeopathy
Introduction There are two principle research applications of the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), in proving efficacy of homeopathic practice. Trials measuring effectiveness of homeopathic treatment of diseases are the most familiar and natural-seeming method, but are nevertheless the more difficult of realization. The second is the proving trial, which focuses... -
Turning the Tables
The cardinal virtue of mathematics rests in its ability to describe objects, events, and relationships unambiguously. This is the meat of objectivity, the heart of truth. But what are we to make of it, when the clarity of the prosecutor’s argument dissolves before the gaze of a surprise witness? How... -
Validating Controlled Research Part II: Accounting for Complex Process
Introduction It is commonly assumed that if a medical practice, in particular homeopathy, claims to have real effects on real illnesses in the real world, then it ought to be possible to demonstrate those effects in a placebo-controlled trial. But in Part I of this series, we found that controlled... -
Homeopathy: The Scientific Proofs of Efficacy
Publisher: 2002. Milan, Guna S.r.l. Reviewed By: Neil D. Shere This slender volume was compiled through the joint efforts of Guna S.r.l., Italy’s largest homeopathic pharmaceutical company, and AIOT (Associazione Medica Italiana di Omotossicologia), a professional medical association – Italy’s largest such association for nonconventional physicians. Published in 2002 in... -
Homeopathy is Dead
Yes, homeopathy is dead. Details concerning its long-anticipated demise were released at about this time last year, by the editors of The Lancet. Needless to say, their report came as a surprise to thousands of successful homeopathic practitioners, hundreds of thousands of satisfied homeopathic patients, and dedicated scientists involved in... -
Validating Controlled Research Part I: Measuring the Measuring Rod
Introduction Like words, numbers comprise a representational language. As such, it is fair to expect that, in practical applications, it can be shown that numbers are anchored to real objects and real processes in the real world. In our present context, statistical findings reported out of a controlled, or other... -
Kate Chatfield
Kate divides her time between private practice, teaching, and research. In addition to teaching at University of Central Lancashire, she is a director at the Galway College of Homeopathy. She sits on the Research and the Research Ethics Committees of The Society of Homeopaths, of which she is a co-founder,... -
The Trials of Homeopathy: Origins, Structure and Development
Author: Dr. Mike Emmans Dean Publisher: KVC Verlag Pages 305, soft cover (with a CD) ISBN: 3-93351-40-5 Price: $32.00 Reviewed By: Neil D. Shere aka ‘bach’ ———————————————- In a word, this is an important book. If not entirely unique, it is in any event unusual for combining historical scholarship with...
