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ravenblack
8 Feb 2017, 06:10
Science!
I get that there could be value in that - if any of those people were ever the people reading scientific commentary!

But being deliberately misleading in the opposite direction is a great way to…
songblaze
7 Feb 2017, 12:49
Science!
I think the 'no scientific evidence to support it' is intended to refute the marketing material. In a rather frightful number of cases, patients do just go by the marketing material. The assertion…
ravenblack
5 Feb 2017, 06:05
Science!
Absolutely, we shouldn't assume that it works, but we also shouldn't assert that it doesn't (in the absence of evidence), or suggest that counterevidence exists if it doesn't, or say that there is…
songblaze
4 Feb 2017, 12:35
Science!
I think part of it is an inclination to protect people from snake oil hucksters, and I have to say I respect that inclination. When you are fighting a tide of anecdotal reports that just don't add…
ravenblack
28 Jan 2017, 18:37
Science!
Ah, that's interesting, and I would be totally happy if naysayers cited such a test! But that's not "lack of support", that's actual evidence for a thing not working. And if the naysayers were aware…