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Thursday 2 June 2016

Aromatherapy and reflexology are both effective…or aren’t they? | Edzard Ernst

Alternative medicine has no shortage of research that suggests it to be effective. Almost invariably, however, one finds – when looking a bit more carefully at such investigations – that the positive conclusions are not warranted by the data. Here is an excellent, recent example: 

This new study, authored by two Turkish nurses, was an RCT where the patients […]