@aral @willmoyer …better off sticking with what they've got rather than taking on our pharma. Acute/life-threatening stuff is different!
RT @Medium: “There’s Only One Kind of Medicine” by @willmoyer https://medium.com/editors-picks/64a37ea9d0ee?utm_source=TwitterAccount&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=TwitterAccount …
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@__MarkW__@aral But chronic conditions aren’t better off being treated by drops of water or randomly placed needles. -
@willmoyer@aral Actually, many of them are, since those placebos are better than no treatment and have fewer side effects than any drug. :) -
@__MarkW__@aral I’ll accept this, if it’s an adult choosing it themselves and believing it’ll work. But not for children. -
@willmoyer@aral Parents must decide for their children, even if they decide wrong. Exceptions for anything non life-threatening are risky. -
@__MarkW__ (We should stop including@aral. We’re blowing up his feed.)
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@aral@willmoyer …over-estimates effectiveness of western medicine for most chronic conditions. For most medicine traditional cultures are…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral@willmoyer This article is well written but ignores issues of cost/access, massively understates placebo: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376272/ … and…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral Thanks :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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