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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  Are there any CAM modalities that you think are bullshit?
Acupuncture?
Homeopathy?
Therapeutic touch?
Reiki?
Kinesiology?
Chiropractic?
I fully expect that people will continue to pay lots of money for these treatments but this has little to do with results from well controlled studies.
Well at least you are clarifying your true-believer status. |
As I pointed out a while back - these therapies presumably tap into the placebo effect more effectively than orthodox medicine. We know the placebo effect is very real in most medical contexts, though the conventional 'explanation' as to how it works is just a guess.
I suspect part of the problem here is how do you set up double blind trials if the whole essence of the therapy is to use the placebo effect as efficiently as possible.
I don't know which of the above are most effective, but I would be rather surprised if none of them are useful.
David