mytyde comments on The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mytyde 26 September 2012 01:17:18AM 1 point [-]

And if this sort of evidence can be overlooked/ignored for large clinical trials, what other sorts of partially or totally valid alternative treatments might be receiving similar improper treatment?

Comment author: gwern 26 September 2012 01:23:29AM 3 points [-]

Far fewer than are correctly being ignored because the evidence and practices of alt medicine, and their studies, suffer from all the problems of regular medicine plus countless fascinating old & new pathologies of their own.