Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy

BiasedBayes

Very interesting decision from the one of the leading scientific publications to publish an article about Reiki therapy.

http://www.nature.com/news/consider-all-the-evidence-on-alternative-therapies-1.18547

[Edit: should be Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy]

"Speaking as someone who finds that placebos cure my headaches as well as painkillers do, I dispute that that is the question.."

You should consider regression to the mean and illusion of correlation.

I have. I have no evidence that either pain killers or placebos work in any sort of medical sense; I have clear evidence that swallowing a pill causes me to relax, resulting in a immediate reduction in pain. This is stupid, and I am working on eliminating the pill, but still, if this is what works, I will continue to use it frequently until I find something better.

I think one of the major reasons that people dislike the idea of placebos is because they think that they are being medicine. This has not been my experience. Placebos are better than medicine, b... (read more)

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