It's really impressive to see how close to the real intervention the controls match. Almost the same. This right there is what 'the placebo' is....
If only we could at least get strudels out of this. Would be so much better than anything they've done. Combined.
I really don't think we can make much of a difference as long as garbage quality studies are considered good evidence. Even in the best case...
Definitely, but it does speak to a broader, common, pattern of behavior, one that seems to be considered acceptable in a very limited context....
Is this common? I guess it must be, but obviously people should not be reviewing their own work. This is all very silly Kabuki theatre.
I can't see how this is any different than a study of the power of prayer asking about beliefs in whatever religion is used in those prayers....
This is the only important bit. They are very far from knowing everything. All this speculation over psychological factors is a complete waste...
It's very similar to political polling. And just as scientific, i.e. not at all. Everything is in the how questions are asked and the agenda of...
Details should remain on point, but would it be worth mentioning that a similar thing happened with the NICE guideline? As a pattern of behavior,...
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
Talk is cheap. I haven't seen anything but cheap talk so far.
It follows the same common pattern of hearing experts talk about topics we aren't familiar with, and thinking the experts seem to know what they...
But also it's very, very bad philosophy. The kind that can serve as a how-to of what philosophy isn't. If at least it were any good, but instead...
Health pseudoscience is a rare thing that allies left and right on the same outcomes, and where both are indifferent to actually knowing about...
This whole project is a dumpster fire. Cochrane is inept and behaving in very bad faith, literally all the excuses they have amount to "we are...
Could have saved 5 years by just listening to us, this is what was proposed on day 1. And could have been ongoing for decades at this point, since...
Moved posts [IMG] They talk of full genome analysis but are they also doing a GWAS?
Here it's even worse, they notice that they're not making a difference, but still find nothing wrong with the idea that they are critical to the...
Just do it right. Stop doing it wrong. Duh! Like the whole ideology, they are confusing the outcome for the process and the process for the...
Pretty amazing article describing all the various body parts of an elephant, even somewhat self-aware of it, but censored into not saying it. They...
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