It's an interesting position for Matthew to take... That he'll accept an obviously faulty model's obviously order-of-magnitude exaggerated number and wait for "better evidence." Dude, does he even science?
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A clever straw man. That ain't
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Right, and the mechanism is to improve on research results. Pretty much everyone agrees that we need a tally of medical error that has better validity and reliability than Makary et al The question is whether denouncing it or if replacing it is a better use of resources
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There is harm from promoting numbers that give a false narrative. People may avoid appropriate care. Also those numbers are used to market all manner of bogus therapies.
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Indeed they are. Homeopathy violates multiple laws of physics. Reiki relies on a mystical nonexistent entity known as the universal source. TCM is based on a mystical prescientific understanding of human biology and disease. THAT's why they're quackery.
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Totally. But acupuncture freaks me out because it appears to have benefits to horses and dogs, neither of which should experience the placebo effect. Help me debunk it!
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yo tyler
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Yo Tricia, yo! :)
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