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A large, significant clinical trial of acupuncture
Alfster Posted Sep 30, 2007
It would be well worth listening to PM from 25th September which has got an interview between Ben Goldacre and David Tredinnick MP, (non-partisan....
)Chairman, UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated and Complementary Healthcare.
His whole argument went like this: this study shows that acupunture is better than traditional medicine...(Edie Mair..."but the study shows that it's no better than a placebo")...la la la fingers in ears...this study shows that acupunture is better than traditional medicine...oh, and the needles were pushed in a little way and there are some theories that show that just pushing the needles in a small way still has an effect.
So, we have the chairman of a Parlimentary Group looking at complimentary medicine who either does not understand how to interpret the results of a study OR is happy to willfully misinterpret them.
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