Also, there is reporting bias. The alternative medicine ecosystem of websites, social media, and publications don't publicize patients with cancer who use quackery and die in a timeframe that would be expected if their cancer were left untreated. Only survivors are publicized.https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1003457961136492544 …
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Agree David but to be fair, neither does pharma. As healthcare payers, we never come to know how many die and when after taking all these marginally effective new cancer drugs. All we read abt are media stories of the pts who miraculously survived for long periods of time
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That's true to an extent but there's usually also trial evidence giving an average survival, whereas with alt med you're often left with nothing but a case report
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