The primary cause of this was treatment refusal: people who used complementary medicine were less likely to use effective treatment, so they died more #wherestheharmpic.twitter.com/ivl8u37Kff
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The primary cause of this was treatment refusal: people who used complementary medicine were less likely to use effective treatment, so they died more #wherestheharmpic.twitter.com/ivl8u37Kff
Next time someone asks #wherestheharm: it's right here. Complementary medicine causing people to refuse conventional meds that work, and killing them in the process
Also worth noting that, based on the survival curves, this difference was big in both absolute AND relative termspic.twitter.com/H7R5gA4VrW
More than 80% of the people who did not use complementary medicine were still alive at 7 years, compared to less than 70% of the complementary medicine users That is ENORMOUS
Also, should note that this was a study of people with cancer specifically, not of complementary medicine more generally
If you want to read more, blog post on this study is uphttps://medium.com/@gidmk/complementary-medicine-kills-35e47d3f518d …
The DISASTER is it is LEGAL !
Very true. It is a serious problem. Quacks should not be able to treat cancer patients, full stop
Interesting approach to test for reverse causation, by an analysis including the mediator (treatment adherence). Could have been formally tested in a structural equation model.
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