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Article: Homeopathy makes no sense but science takes a look anyway
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1995
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As a psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Weintraub is among the most highly
trained of Western doctors, an establishment kind of guy who until
recently was head of psychiatry at the Spaulding Rehabilitation
Hospital in Boston.
But Weintraub is a patient, too, a man who says he suffered for
years from an inflammatory condition that Western medicine could not
cure. Nudged by a friend, he went to Dr. Richard M. Moskowitz, a
Watertown physician trained in homeopathy, arguably the most
implausible of all alternative therapies now sweeping America.
"I went as an act of faith," he says. "I did not read one
sentence about homeopathy. Possibly, if I had, I would have had the
same biases that members of my ...