[lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 8 05:24:13 PDT 2006


On Aug 8, 2006, at 7:50 AM, ravi wrote:


>> Both studies failed to show clinical efficacy. All this
>> should mark a sea change in how the public views such treatments.
>>
>
> Why? The real comparison should be to the efficacy of "mainstream"
> medicine (henceforth referred to as professional-racket-medicine),
> especially as a ratio of public and individual dollars spent.

But that's what the article reported - a comparison of hippie arthritis treatments to orthodox ones (and a placebo). The NIH isn't staffed by idiots.

Doug



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