Exactly right ! Biological plausibility based on current state of scientific knowledge not ancient “wisdom” or pseudoscience postulates. Think of the $ wasted on implausible Zamboni Rx for MS
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Replying to @drdavebrooks @CaulfieldTim and
Well, to be devil’s advocate, there was a time that the world being round or landing on the moon seemed “implausible.” In an age of loss of faith in science, valid concerns about peer-review or industry influence or profit motive, scientists need to cultivate more humility.
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Replying to @usnehal @drdavebrooks and
Humility is extremely important, and I share your concerns about financial COIs in medical science. But that doesn't mean we can't identify characteristics of interventions that make them implausible. Unlike claiming the earth is round, claims that a single intervention 1/2
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @usnehal and
can address a wide variety of ailments with totally different etiologies have existed for centuries, and characterize something as a panacea. We have reason to be suspicious of panacea claims--like COIs!--in a way that we don't with claims about the earth being round. 2/2
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @drdavebrooks and
Agreed, panacea claims are suspect. But CAM is adjunct, not “cure.” Many things do have subtle or system effects: exercise, sleep, stress, sugar intake, etc. Just getting enough sleep or exercising is good for a wide range of medical issues, all without side effects.
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Exactly. Exercise is not CAM. Diet is not CAM. Sleep is not CAM. Basically, CAM co-opted those modalities ad a Trojan Horse for quackery like acupuncture, reiki, traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and the like.
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Agreed. I'm not sure how the convo shifted from acupuncture as IVF enhancer (an area where the rhetoric borders on "cure") to the general benefits of a healthy lifestyle. I think it's reasonable to point out that many physicians don't focus on lifestyle enough. 1/
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @gorskon and
I also believe--and in this perhaps I'm somewhat unusual--that there's room for a variety of ways of "branding" lifestyle interventions. Some people prefer camping, others prefer yoga--these are aesthetic-spiritual choices that I'm happy to respect. 2/
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @gorskon and
However, I don't think it's fair to conflate those lifestyle interventions with acupuncture for IVF, which really *is* part of a larger panacea-style claim about how fixing qi can help a variety of conditions. Likewise for homeopathy, etc. 3/
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CAM includes aspects of diet. Diet can include paying attention to sugar. No one quite understands how the relationship between sugar and cancer works: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-nine-year-study-has-just-shown-how-sugar-exacerbates-cancer … What is CAM and what is “real” medicine is not distinct.
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Replying to @usnehal @AlanLevinovitz and
That is not to say that a special diet helps after cancer happens. This gets into that:https://www.mskcc.org/blog/no-sugar-no-cancer-look-evidence …
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Replying to @usnehal @AlanLevinovitz and
It is modern diets and lifestyles that are killing us. We needed research to tell us that the “a Mediterranean diet”, a traditional diet, is “medically approved” for health. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/mediterranean-diet/art-20047801 …
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