Using Science to Sort Claims of Alternative Medicine - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Oct 08
  

  Djiezes Kraaijst

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  •  Applying Science to Alternative Medicine 
  • only 40 percent of the studies used randomized controlled trials — the usual way of establishing reliable knowledge
  • “the vast majority of these studies have been small,” averaging 30 or fewer subjects
  • small studies often have a built-in conflict of interest: they need to show positive results to win grants for larger investigations.

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