Great! I’m antiscience then.
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As you say.
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Meh. I'm for licensed hair-stylists too. Not because I think hair styling is health care, but because I think hair styling is an aesthetic practice with serious public health implications, and workers need to be trained how to handle it.
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But some US states insist on licensure of people who cut hair? And florists? It's seen as a revenue stream.
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While data is limited on acupuncture, many in
#pain and#addiction medicine support its further research for management of chronic and acute pain.@CMS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report discusses this on page 43. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pmtf-final-report-2019-05-23.pdf … -
Yes, I know. They're really misguided in that, given that acupuncture is based on a prescientific understanding of human physiology and, contrary to what acupuncturists claim, has never been shown to have anything beyond nonspecific effects.
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Licensing them means a slightly greater chance in hell of upholding basic bloodborne pathogen guidelines, though. While I'm anti-woo, I'm also anti-Hep B. Like, are needle exchanges validating addiction or just trying to minimize downstream health risks?
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Same goes for abortions and cosmetic plastic surgery and a lot of procedures with no health benefit. Gorski holds a fringe view that licensure = endorsement. It isnt.
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Dawn Hershmann, MD, of Columbia U, NYC, and trialist for the National Cancer Institute would very likely disagree:https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/889817 …
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Heheh. You really don't think I was unaware of this study, do you?https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/acupuncture-versus-breast-cancer-treatment-induced-joint-pain-spinning-another-bad-study/ …
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