Does anyone actually believe this sh1t works?!
Question: its called the placebo effect
u could pop tic tacs all day long nd they could cure your back pain
Answers: its called the placebo effect
u could pop tic tacs all day long nd they could cure your back pain
I have cured people of CANCER with this "Sh1t".
I have totally reversed degenerative arthritis.
I have given people back the use of their arms and legs.
I suspect the only "Sh1t" here is between your EARS!
that's if you don't know you're taking tic tacs.
Hmmm, you must be friends with Opus or maybe Kalos Orisate.
Apparently the pharmaceutical companies do cause they keep buying up the alternative medicine companies.
Most people know that pharmaceuticals are all derived from natural resources and then turned into synthetic drugs. The synthetic alternatives are patentable, therefore more profitable than their natural alternatives. So, I don't know about you but I'm not synthetic I'm 100% natural made so I'll keep right on taking natural medicines.
scientists in basic research know herbs and other AltMed methods are effective.....so-called researchers (meta-analysis) haven't a clue
AND
the studies chosen for analysis are cherry picked to "prove" whatever the so-called researcher wishes.
yes. the mind is a powerful thing.
yes acupuncture a natural form of alternative medicine that actually works.
Does this also mean that if you think you're taking Tic Tacs and you are really taking Oxycontin, that the Oxy won't make you stupid?
Alternative or Natural Medicines are effective and do work.
My practice deals with muscle problems and I do NOT ever prescribe drugs for my patients. They all have great benefits from my services.
Massage , the great placebo. MMMMM my favorite placebo as well.
You are well trained.
If you are unlucky enough the day will come when you hurt so bad and you will have no hope. On that day you will wonder if you are wrong. On that day you will make a choice look or not and live or die by your choice.
I looked and lived. You? Who knows.
It appears the more gullible the patient, the easier it is to invoke a placebo effect. Medicines should work regardless of whether the patient believes in them or not. Much of altmed fails this test.
Freetochoose shouldn't make comments about meta-analysis, a concept he clearly doesn't understand. Meta-analysis is a perfectly valid research technique to extract significance out of previously obtained data. PhDs have been won in the establishment of meta-analysis as a valid tool. See the following extract from Wikipedia:
"Modern meta-analysis does more than just combine the effect sizes of a set of studies. It can test if the studies' outcomes show more variation than the variation that is expected because of sampling different research participants. If that is the case, study characteristics such as measurement instrument used, population sampled, or aspects of the studies' design are coded. These characteristics are then used as predictor variables to analyze the excess variation in the effect sizes. Some methodological weaknesses in studies can be corrected statistically. For example, it is possible to correct effect sizes or correlations for the downward bias due to measurement error or restriction on score ranges.
Meta analysis leads to a shift of emphasis from single studies to multiple studies. It emphasises the practical importance of the effect size instead of the statistical significance of individual studies. This shift in thinking has been termed Metaanalytic thinking."