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Friday, 6 April 2018

‘Pilot studies’ of alternative medicine: incompetent, unethical, misleading and harmful

Since many months, I have noticed a proliferation of so-called pilot studies of alternative therapies. A pilot study (also called feasibility study) is defined as a small scale preliminary study conducted in order to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, adverse events, and improve upon the study design prior to performance of a full-scale research project. Here […]

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