As already mentioned there are a variety of reasons why no one should rely on these types of studies as being conclusive of anything. Clinicians in the real world don't spend their time debating studies -- the focus is on treating patients. Armchair critics, since they are not clinicians, seem to get some queer ego kick from assuming that philosophizing about studies gives them some nebulous intellectual status.
Attacks on Homeopathy based on armchair philosophizing about studies always ignore the fact that mainstream medicine is operating outside of a solid evidence base and the deeper real world patients dig the more jusification they have for shopping for their health care elsewhere:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/nov/11-the-problem-with-medicine-don.t-know-if-most-works/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
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As already mentioned there are a variety of reasons why no one should rely on these types of studies as being conclusive of anything. Clinicians in the real world don't spend their time debating studies -- the focus is on treating patients. Armchair critics, since they are not clinicians, seem to get some queer ego kick from assuming that philosophizing about studies gives them some nebulous intellectual status.
February 7, 2012 - 4:35amAttacks on Homeopathy based on armchair philosophizing about studies always ignore the fact that mainstream medicine is operating outside of a solid evidence base and the deeper real world patients dig the more jusification they have for shopping for their health care elsewhere:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/nov/11-the-problem-with-medicine-don.t-know-if-most-works/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
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