Re: putting quackery to the test
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