"@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
Also, we shouldn't use science policy & granting agency funding as a strategy against conspiracy theories. Waste if ltd $ & it undermines the scientific integrity of entire operation. (Um, we know this is all BS, but just to keep you happy... here is the
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We also shouldn't lump together social science research with quackery, as the author of that article in his ideological bias so unfortunately did.
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