good theatre here, but i'd urge the combatants to consult the cochrane
library before they draw these sorts of conclusions or invoke a lack of
guts; a gutsy, vigorous, international group of folks have been hard at
work for some time, designing and carrying out systematic reviews of the
surprisingly large number of trials of alternative/ complementary
therapies. have a look.
cheers
dls
On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Toby Lipman wrote:
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> The original comment........(trimmed)
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> > > and surgeries. These therapies may or may not be effective for a
> > specfic
> > > problem, but they do not operate in different realm. Many people
> > feel
> > > they've been helped by them.
> > >
> > > I do agree that physicians should not prescribe or do
> > therapies
> > > in which they are not trained.
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> The reply..........
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> > I agree - up to a point. The point is, of course, that there *is* no
> > evidence upon which to base the decision to use complementary
> > therapies. What they need is research, and then we may have some
> > evidence.
>
> My two cent worth.........
>
> But there _is_ evidence; there are plenty of people who _think_
> they've been helped and in a sense, therefore, have; just because
> it's not the kind of 'proof' we're used to we can't dismiss it! (And
> as a medical geographer, let me add that most of what we consider
> 'proof' is pretty, erm, well, heroic, sometimes :-) )
>
> If we're talking about _healing_ here, then there's plenty of
> evidence. It's only if you're talking about scientific analysis that
> we have a problem because the evidence simply hasn't been colated
> (and as flame bait, I might ask why we've not had the guts to dare to
> do this - what are we afraid of *grins and ducks!* )
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
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