Comments on: Edzard Ernst: Research into implausible assumptions is likely to result in implausible conclusions http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/07/31/edzard-ernst-research-into-implausible-assumptions-is-likely-to-result-in-implausible-conclusions/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Edzard Ernst http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/07/31/edzard-ernst-research-into-implausible-assumptions-is-likely-to-result-in-implausible-conclusions/#comment-16022 Edzard Ernst Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:48:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=19099#comment-16022 Just because you happen not to believe the old gospel of subluxation does not mean other chiros do not adhere to it. There are dozens of publications on this topic; here is but the most recent http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513367

]]> By: Calypso http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/07/31/edzard-ernst-research-into-implausible-assumptions-is-likely-to-result-in-implausible-conclusions/#comment-16020 Calypso Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:37:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=19099#comment-16020 An inaccurate and misleading commentary.

]]> By: Skeptical observer of motives http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/07/31/edzard-ernst-research-into-implausible-assumptions-is-likely-to-result-in-implausible-conclusions/#comment-16015 Skeptical observer of motives Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:43:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=19099#comment-16015 Placebo effect is effective medicine.  Studies prove this.  So leave AM to it.  Implausible is what people used to think about a lot of things – space travel, UK Olympic gymnasts winning a medal etc. Let’s find the key to basics like explaining pain and treating it as effectively as acupuncture does.  Placebo effect or not – people feel better.  Let’s have open minds and look into these things…

Blue skies research is practically dead anyway. Funding is drying up for everyone.  What is Dr. Ernst contributing to the conversation, but yet the same stuff he has gone on about for years.  Demonizing the AM contingent to what end? Let them at least use the placebo effect to help those WM has not or cannot.

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