Weighing in on this debate: 1) Tackling pseudoscience properly (not in a drive-by fashion) can teach critical thinking skills and basic scientific concepts to a public that desperately needs it.
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Replying to @crackedscience @VPrasadMDMPH
Indeed. I've learned to read the medical literature much more critically by taking on alternative medicine claims.
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Dr. Prasad is also incorrect that there is "no evidence." Often there are many studies of various alternative medicine modalities that are touted as positive and superficially appear positive. You have to dig down deep into the methods and analyses to figure out why they are not.
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Examples include acupuncture (of course), any number of supplements and other treatments, and, yes, even homeopathy.
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In addition, I occasionally chime across a treatment for which Google searches bring up nothing but marketing material, laudatory articles, and seemingly positive studies, with nary a hint of a skeptical take.
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It is of value in these cases to seed the interwebs with a careful deconstruction.
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