[lbo-talk] Re:Re: Re: RIP, Dr. Fraud (Christian Gregory) Issue 196

[Christian Gregory]

> HK:
> Hesitate to get embroiled here. Still....
> But is not your first sentence in this para - contraverted by your
> experience in the last sentence?
> A clinical RCT could be done using the postulates of Freudian therapy to
> compare against any other arm. Perhaps that arm might simply be the
> "compassionate good listener". This would dissect the Hawthrone effect
> of this form the specific Freudian attack.
> So it can be done. I have not searched pubmed for this - but there is no
> over-view of it in the selections of systematic review I briefly looked
at.
> If we insist that drug companies should do RCT's - why do we not for
> other forms of putative therapy?

I'm going to plead ignorance here. What's an RCT? The Hawthorne effect?
Could you elaborate a little more on what you mean here? It could be that
I'm contradicting myself, but I don't know enough about the terms you're
using to respond intelligently.

Christian