That's the one I know most about, obviously. I have no clue about what's going on in China, Korea, or Japan.

So why do you think your defense would not apply equally well (or poorly) to them? What's the phage of China?

Look, it doesn't matter if phages work or don't work! The treatment, in favour of which there would be strong bias, got replaced with another treatment, which would have been biased against. Something that wouldn't have happened if science systematically failed to work in such an extreme and ridiculous manner.

Oh wow. What a convincing argument. 'Look, some Russians once did this! Now they do that! No, it doesn't matter if they were right or wrong before or after!' Cool. So does that mean I get to point to every single change of medical treatment in the USA as evidence it's just peachy there? 'Look, some Americans once did lobotomy! Now they don't! It doesn't matter if lobotomies work or don't work!'

I keep forgetting that I really really need to spell out any conclusions when arguing with you. It's like you're arguing that a car is missing the wheels but I just drove here on it.

You didn't drive shit anywhere.

Besides, the 90%+ proportion of positive results is also the case in the west

That's on a different dataset, covering more recent time periods, which, as the abstract says, still shows serious problems in East Asia (compromised by relatively small sample: trying to show trends in 'AS' using 204 studies over 17 years isn't terribly precise compared to the 2627 they have for the USA) with the latest data being 85% vs 100%. And 100% significance is a ceiling, so who knows how bad the East Asian research has actually gotten during the same time period Western numbers continue to deteriorate...