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Is Chinese acupuncture research more like propaganda than science? [l]

PainScience

I mean, other than justified general cynicism about China, acupuncture, and alternative medicine? Regardless of whether it was true in 1998, is it true now, in 2025? Instead, as of 2025, it takes a cluster of citations, a meta-citation, rather than one convenient source. Where does it come from? Vickers et al.

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Why those positive studies aren’t good enough [l]

PainScience

2025 will probably deliver the biggest-ever harvest of not-so-promising studies about what works for pain. And probably every single bad idea in alternative medicine.] And what kind of evidence is good enough? Even if the effect size is small? Stupidpants, dont believe everything you read no, not even on PubMed.