A sure sign, if we needed one, that the paper is unscientific, prejudiced rubbish.Garner's a big fan of this paper
A sure sign, if we needed one, that the paper is unscientific, prejudiced rubbish.Garner's a big fan of this paper
Clinical trials cannot account for, or control for, such diverse social challenges or the individual neurobiology that may be involved in addressing them.
Garner's a big fan of this paper
Not to mention that Vogt & Co tried to get the cyclo study cancelled, and that so far, every application for funding for Dara p2 has been turned down.It's a small detail that I missed, though it really speaks to how absurd these people are, that the part quoted by Garner mentions how we exclusively fund "pharmaceutical research". Now, I'm pretty sure that the authors of this sad excuse for a paper know that this is false, and that Garner does too. They know what pharmaceutical research means, which is the research, development and testing of new drugs, and that it is not the same thing as doing basic biomedical research, which is what we mainly fund, and is in fact the bulk of research (by funding, though not volume, since BPS garbage is cheap).
But they say this to sort of hint like we side with the powerful pharmaceutical industry, which has so far explicitly refused to even try, mainly because they literally cannot do anything until a biological target is identified by basic biomedical research, while they are the smol bean underdogs fighting for the little guy, only to be beaten back by the big bad patient lobbies working in tandem with giant corporate interests. Or whatever. Pure fantasy.
Their lies are so absurdly over-the-top that it more closely resembles the sewers of the internet than anything having to do with academia. Our civilization is collapsing under all the lies and corruption, so much that it has so thoroughly infected even the medical profession, where egregious lies are rewarded. Our species is really heading strong towards self-collapse, and biopsychosocial medicine and 4chan are two prongs of the horseshoe politics regressing health care.
There's a deeper, and funnier, though in a very bad way, implication of this weak argument, and it's: then why bother doing trials at all? Because for years when the fake trials they set up were accepted as indisputable, well, they were indisputable. It wasn't them simply saying that (it totally was), they had trials proving it (and you should just ignore the fact that the assertions predated the trials by many years). I certainly agree that pragmatic trials like this are entirely useless, but for very different reason than they are pretending to argue here.If it can be done in the clinic, then it can be done in a clinical trial.
It's just an excuse for the lack of effect, which reveals that the clinic has little to offer beyond fulfilling the desire to receive treatment, be listened to, etc.
It's a small detail that I missed, though it really speaks to how absurd these people are, that the part quoted by Garner mentions how we exclusively fund "pharmaceutical research". Now, I'm pretty sure that the authors of this sad excuse for a paper know that this is false, and that Garner does too. They know what pharmaceutical research means, which is the research, development and testing of new drugs, and that it is not the same thing as doing basic biomedical research, which is what we mainly fund, and is in fact the bulk of research (by funding, though not volume, since BPS garbage is cheap).
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