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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DrPaulND @GidMK and

      One thing still perplexes me. The crux of you “trashing” the NHMRC report is on the basis of lack of homeopathy knowledge on the Committee. Yet Pr Brooks founded ACCMER at UofQ and Pr Tiralongo teaches CM at Griffith. How are they not eminently qualified to research homeopathy?

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    2. Dr. Paul Theriault BSc, ND, VNMI‏ @DrPaulND 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @auscandoc @GidMK and

      You are wrong. That is one of numerous bases for trashing the report. (And because someone teaches "CM" somewhere does not mean they know much about it. Apparently they didn't know enough to avoid those mistakes)

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    3. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DrPaulND @GidMK and

      Hmmm so someone who is “head for CM teaching and research” and someone who “established the Aus Ctr for CM Education and Research” don’t “know much about it” and aren’t qualified to do the review? Who is then?

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    4. Dr. Paul Theriault BSc, ND, VNMI‏ @DrPaulND 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @auscandoc @GidMK and

      I would trust Rachel Roberts. Robert Mathie. Peter Fisher (god rest his soul). Alex Tournier. Michael Frass. All people with, you know, expertise in the subject. And who would not make such catastrophically poor choices.

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    5. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DrPaulND @GidMK and

      So I think we’d be all grateful if you would link us to their systematic review of the effectiveness of Homeopathy. Again, just so I’m clear, it is your position that only Homeopaths are qualified to do a review of this sort?

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    6. Dr. Paul Theriault BSc, ND, VNMI‏ @DrPaulND 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @auscandoc @GidMK and

      But they have indeed done a series of such reviews on Homeopathy? Have you not heard of them? Probably not, since they found Randomised Placebo controlled individualized trials were, in fact, positive, overall. Skeptic media has no interest in amplifying that.

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    7. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DrPaulND @GidMK and

      As mentioned: we’d be happy to see them.

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    8. Dr. Paul Theriault BSc, ND, VNMI‏ @DrPaulND 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @auscandoc @GidMK and

      Ah yes, I forgot, your incompetence at search. You may not, not published in your favorite Vanity Journal. And Mathis is not a Homeopathy. He's a psychological researcher, if I recall.…https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2046-4053-3-142 …

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    9. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DrPaulND @GidMK and

      Thanks for this but the conclusion bothers me "The low or unclear overall quality of the evidence prompts caution in interpreting the findings. New high-quality RCT research is necessary to enable more decisive interpretation.”

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    10. Dr. Paul Theriault BSc, ND, VNMI‏ @DrPaulND 29 Jun 2019
      Replying to @auscandoc @GidMK and

      Why does that bother you. It's a caveat, which is nearly universal in good science. And not a deception like the aforementioned NHMRC trash

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Jul 2019
      Replying to @DrPaulND @auscandoc and

      Lol. That review found not a single study they felt confident in assigning a low risk of bias. The realistic conclusion from such research is that the current evidence is not consistent enough to make a conclusion

      4:21 PM - 4 Jul 2019
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Jul 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @DrPaulND and

          Coupled with the otherwise overwhelming evidence against homeopathy, I'd say it's fair to conclude that a reasonable judgement is that individualized homeopathy is as ineffective as any other kind

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Jul 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @DrPaulND and

          I'd also question quite a few elements of the study - just one point, pooling odds ratios for mostly continuous data is not a good idea. Much more reasonably to use a weighted mean difference where possible, especially as most outcome data (i.e. pain level) is continuous

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        2. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 4 Jul 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @DrPaulND and

          And, curiously, @EdzardErnst can demonstrate that Mathie exluded Ernst’s (negative) study which would have been the only A rated study.

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        3. Dr. Paul Theriault BSc, ND, VNMI‏ @DrPaulND 4 Jul 2019
          Replying to @auscandoc @GidMK and

          But did not meet other critera, and which mathie, very graciously, included in a second analysis, which showed still greater than placebo effects, after Ernst's protestations on the matter https://www.britishhomeopathic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BHA-16-Jan-2015.pdf …

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