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Thursday, 7 January 2016

Five ways to mislead people with seemingly rigorous trials | Edzard Ernst

The randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial is usually the methodology to test the efficacy of a therapy that carries the least risk of bias. This fact is an obvious annoyance to some alt med enthusiasts, because such trials far too often fail to produce the results they were hoping for.

But there is no need to despair. Here […]

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