It goes even beyond that: it's possible with harmful treatment that is widely rejected as nonsensical, as long as the harm is not, basically,...
“No reliable evidence of efficacy” is not a strong term, it's a statement of fact. The best that this treatment model can boast about, after...
Extensive studies of this type of treatment almost always weaken the findings, so they will not be conducted. Only more weak, biased and...
So, not controlled or randomized, and retrospective. How does this even get approved and published? Medicine has to rein in the mass of low...
Red teaming is common in technology fields. It's a great process, it's very effective at poking holes in models, and making fools out of people...
There's some legitimate concern with leaving people with multiple diagnoses and how healthcare professionals perceive them (and I guess with...
Something this paper also fails at, so that's not especially encouraging. If only this could be done, but instead it's blatantly obvious that...
Ha! Beyond parody. No, not those beliefs, those other beliefs.
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I wish brain fog had only taken 10 years of cognitive decline. How sweet would that have been. I was in my 20's, and you don't see this kind of...
Not just a parody of science, but an actual parody of pseudoscience. Doctors used to laugh at this stuff. Now they embrace it. What a weird turn...
Mostly seems to boil down to: Ultimately, they answer to no one on this stuff. If they don't follow their own rules, there's no one to hold them...
Ultimately, this seems to be the main reason why medicine is indifferent to those costs. They don't see them, they are mostly indirect. There is...
[MEDIA] I'd be surprised if she didn't talk with Fauci. Let's hope he really means it and will advise to make something out of it. I doubt he...
This looks like the only realistic scenario. When Marshall and his team invalidated everything about psychosomatic peptic ulcers, there was a lot...
The latest selective "review" by Knoop about CBT "helping" got a lot of press and kudos. They keep doing this because they are rewarded for it. It...
There really isn't anything in there that addresses the issues presented in the petition. No doubt they will ignore it anyway, but the problems...
Completely underwhelming. All I get from this is that Cochrane is a completely dysfunctional mess that is incapable of putting together a...
Excuses excuses excuses. It was all a choice, there was never any obstacle to solving this other than lack of motivation caused by denial, and...
Projects like this usually work out when data can be shared across teams and organizations. But health data is never shared, so all we end up with...
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