One study, the best study, showing a health benefit of placebos please.
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I understand your goal completely.
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And I understand yours, so I guess we are even.
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Excellent, so glad you understand honest attempts at conversation to improve health and health care. Have a good day.
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I'll take this as an admission that you can't name a single impactful study of the health benefits of placebo, despite writing on the topic extensively.
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On the placebo effect see http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/ … by
@david_colquhoun And https://medium.com/@rikcw/the-placebo-effect-isnt-as-real-as-we-think-it-is-60b1007019d1 … by@GidMK@cochranecollab http://cochranelibrary-wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003974/abstract … "We did not find that placebo interventions have important clinical effects in general." Also, my take:http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2017/acupuncture-and-the-placebo-problem/ …5 replies 9 retweets 13 likes -
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Replying to @alc_anthro @statsepi and
Much discussion about the "no deception"
#placebo studies. I hear about them frequently (usually in support of using a therapy that is no better than a placebo). Interesting critique of work by@gorskon https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-effects-without-deception-well-not-exactly/ … Thx@CoyneoftheRealm &@david_colquhoun2 replies 5 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @CaulfieldTim @statsepi and
Sorry, but http://sciencebasedmedicine.org is an echo chamber, and borderline cult.
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Replying to @alc_anthro @CaulfieldTim and
I fear that is total nonsense. Read what they say, and judge it. All the writers on SBM are smart and informed. Real critical thinking
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Just an FYI. Dan was banned on @ScienceBasedMed because he became so annoying and repetitive that people complained.
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Replying to @gorskon @CaulfieldTim and
I hate to ban or block people, but he certainly seems to have difficulty with some quite basic ideas.
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Replying to @david_colquhoun @CaulfieldTim and
Our banhammer threshold is quite high, believe me. It takes a lot to be banned on
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