"Acupuncture—A Question of Culture" https://ja.ma/2DS0W3R @JAMANetworkOpen cc @AlanLevinovitz @gorskon @SBMPediatrics
"...acupuncture appears to support the therapeutic ritual of the patient in a unique way and plays a crucial role in the therapeutic outcome of the patient."
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Replying to @CaulfieldTim @JAMANetworkOpen and
That's a hell of a lot of special pleading and molehill building to say "The measured effects are most likely due to placebo and nocebo." It serves neither patients nor cultural pluralism to pretend that terms like "tonifying energy" and "qi" are scientifically meaningful.pic.twitter.com/cKO8fzWJV2
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Replying to @snpsandsnRNPs @JAMANetworkOpen and
Study concludes that "acupuncture should be considered for the prevention of radiation-induced xerostomia" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2757250?utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetworkopen&utm_content=wklyforyou&utm_term=120619&term=120719 …. But it seems to be more evidence of the power of placebo theatre. Am I missing something?
@david_colquhoun@DrJenGunter@ScienceBasedMedpic.twitter.com/JVNmzOxy4f
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Another, more likely, explanation is fraud at the Chinese site. It’s well known that Chinese hospitals almost never publish negative studies of acupuncture, and it’s also known that the scientific culture there is prone to fraud in order to produce the culturally expected result.
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