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In reply to the discussion: And people wonder why I have deep concerns about MDs & their drugs [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)46. Science informs medicine.
And again, placebo is, by definition, a null effect. That is why all medical studies include a placebo branch. Because placebos do nothing whatsoever, beyond the intervention of the doctor, who if they do nothing, leaves the intervention as the only variable. That means that the actual intervention can be measured against the null hypothesis -- that the intervention does no better than doing nothing.
Medical research is not easy. It certainly must ignore anecdotal evidence because biology is a very messy affair. The placebo effect is important enough (and yet impotent) that it is the measure by which advances in medicine rise to being useful.
Placebo medicine is, by definition, useless.
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And people wonder why I have deep concerns about MDs & their drugs [View all]
AxionExcel
May 2016
OP
Riiight. Except when you have promoted it in your special passive-aggressive way
progressoid
May 2016
#30
I agree with you about homeopathy, but maybe you could try it to cure your fixation about it.
A Simple Game
May 2016
#44
Wow. That's exactly what I think about the regularly scheduled attacks on non-toxic health care
AxionExcel
May 2016
#12
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jtuck004
May 2016
#18
What doctor doesn't recommend diet and exercise? Seriously, who the fuck are you seeing?
Humanist_Activist
May 2016
#55
And the 'ability to pay' issues can be addressed without damaging that inherent goodness
AtheistCrusader
May 2016
#49