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But he already made available a powerful piece of novel technology that meets the absolute highest levels of evidence in psychosocial evidence-based medicine: "it can be of benefit to some". This is basically the BPS equivalent of 17 sigma in physics. The problem is clearly solved. The...

Sure, you can use a water dowsing rod to find, I don't know, rivers of kool-aid. Works just the same because there's literally no difference. This is like asking is that spirit a ghost or a lich, as if it makes any difference. They're both made-up things anyway.

Ventilation is very important. Anyone working around HVAC systems is aware of CO2 concentration and how many people can safely remain over a period of time. This likely explains many of those along with excessive heat, which people react differently to, especially as we know for people with...

This is a completely illegitimate way of doing things. Medicine has lots its damn mind, there is a growing disconnect between reality and whatever the hell this is all about. It's beyond clear that non-controlled randomized trials are nearly useless at giving useful answers without an actual...

This is generic mumbojumbo. It's worth even less than a pet rock. This is an evaluation of IAPT, a giant multi-billion dollar boondoggle to the CBT-specific segment of the medical pseudoscience industry. This is how this giant muddle of wasted funding and diminishing ethics is being evaluated...

That's a 38% loss of data. No one in their right mind would use anything where 38% of the data from an experiment is not accounted for. It would be different if there were some obligation to account for the missing data but nooooo, instead it's basically abused to eke out fake signal out of...

I am genuinely confused at the utility of those studies. Under what circumstances could this not be feasible? Most people are willing to do anything to recover their health, this is very close to putting people under duress and making them agree to things they should be scoffing at if it wasn't...

Not just on social media. It's becoming official policy in some countries. Today I saw the French health minister blaming it for the current increase in respiratory illnesses. It's pretty much official in several other countries. Basically pretending that people were living aseptic isolated...