"@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 @CaulfieldTim and
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@NIH_NCCIH is weird. They have shown that virtually NO alt med works but haven't the courage to say so, straight out1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
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Good example of problem when research funding is partly driven by PR.
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More like it's a good example of how a government agency with powerful patrons in the Senate and no one passionate enough to do battle to eliminate it will go on forever.
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