[lbo-talk] Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 18 11:33:16 PST 2004


Miles Jackson wrote:


>Oops. Clinical trials have demonstrated that acup. is
>an effective therapy for chronic pain and improves the range of
>motion in arthritis patients, compared to "placebo" treatments.
>Again, I think it's useful if we base our judgments about
>medical therapies on rigorous data, not common sense.

I completely agree with this. I'd like to see rigorous trials of alternative therapies, but as far as I know, there have been very few. Am I wrong? And if I'm not wrong, why have there been so few trials?

Doug



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