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Sunday, 18 March 2018

Another dodgy meta-analysis published in a dodgy journal (except ‘Acupuncture in Medicine’ is from the BMJ-group)

The plethora of dodgy meta-analyses in alternative medicine has been the subject of a recent post – so this one is a mere update of a regular lament.

This new meta-analysis was to evaluate evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation (LDH). (Call me pedantic, but I prefer meta-analyses […]

Read the rest here: Another dodgy meta-analysis published in a dodgy journal (except ‘Acupuncture in Medicine’ is from the BMJ-group)