I know the German pscyhce and they are very practical minded and intelligent.
I'd love to be pointed towards practical minded and intelligent doctors in Germany. After getting ME 15 years ago I've yet to meet one (exception: 1 appointment in Charite, but you're not allowed to come back).
I think that vets that use homeopathy would know if it was placebo, some of them using it as main treatment, and also the Germans who use it extensively, medical doctors included, prescribing it. To think that they are being fooled is laughable.
It's true that some medical doctors in Germany are into homeopathy. My first experience was when I had a severe tonsillitis during my final high school exams and was only treated with homeopathic pills by a medical doctor. The result was that I got sicker during the exams and spent the vacation with friends afterwards with fever and tonsillitis in bed. The same story was repeated with similar bacterial infections. I'm quite convinced that the frequently reoccurring and untreated (or treated with homeopathy only) infections after having mono are an important puzzle piece of me getting ME.
Even my current GP refuses to give antibiotics for IgM positive bacterial infections (last time a few weeks ago) and tells me to buy homeopathic remedies instead. I'm even taking homeopathic pills for sleep at the moment (unsuccessfully), because that's the only sleeping med I was able to get from a doctor.
Problem is, that the only doctors who don't throw you out of their office with a ME diagnosis seem to be the alternative "open minded" ones. I had to hold back my tears when recently a medical doctor that was recommended to me for believing that ME exists (huge effort for my elderly mother to drive me there for hours) came with a dowsing/dousing rod (hope it's the right English term) at me (and based her homeopathic treatment plan on the recommendations of the vibrations of this magical stick). With ME it seems you're either left with stuff like this or you get no treatment at all. I don't understand why ME excludes you from proven symptomatic treatments and why I seem to be undeserving of evidence based medicine.
I know that I should search for other doctors but that's a problem if one doctor visit gets you into bed for a month and telling your ME story to a new doctor and being treated as if you claimed to have been abducted by aliens is psychologically devastating and your mother in her late 70ies doesn't like driving far distances.
In short: I had several bad experiences with homeopathic remedies that made me worse by not stopping infections. Met several medical doctors in Germany who prescribed them not as addition but as only treatment for active bacterial infections, sleep and pain. With ME it seems you're often either left with stuff like homeopathy and dowsing rods or get nothing at all.