"@NIH needs to raise the bar for funding alternative medicine research" Yep. A better move: simply kill the @NIH_NCCIH! Legitimizes bunk. https://www.statnews.com/2018/02/26/alternative-medicine-nih-funding/ … via @statnews "Many [most] of the interventions have proven to be worthless." @McGillOSS @gorskon @ScienceBasedMed
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Replying to @CaulfieldTim @NIH and
I'm not so sure--and I know that in this I disagree with you! It's worth a great deal of money (how much, I'm not sure) to demonstrate to the American public that alt-med is taken seriously, not dismissed. Cuts hard against "establishment conspiracy" narrative.
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @NIH and
We do disagree on this! Legitimizes magical thinking. Hold to same standard as other areas. Researchers can still apply for grants as usual. Long term, this lower-the-scientific-standard PR move hurts everyone... Many don't take
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Exactly. There was and is no scientific need for @NIH_NCCIH. Disband it and distribute its component parts to the other institutes in the @NIH. Let grant applications for CAM be held to the same standard as all other NIH grant applications!
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