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Of these, 62 (27%) were only descriptive and no attempt was made to determine how they were affected by the homeopathic treatment.
I think it makes at least an in-good-faith attempt to be fun and riveting enough on a page-by-page level so I don't feel like I'm hitting the reader with a mallet, you know, "Hey, here's this really hard impossibly smart thing.
It is within this so-called "holistic" paradigm that researchers continue to attempt a critical examination of the specific effects of homeopathic therapies as they relate to conventional diagnostic categories.
Al Sharpton, who has been found liable for defaming Prosecutor Steven Pagones by accusing him of raping Brawley, refused to apologize and depicted the defamation suit as an attempt to silence a brave civil rights martyr, i.e., himself.
He says the coup plot was merely a cry for attention by the GOP freshman class of 1994, not a serious attempt at getting rid of him.