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Posted by Nilet on Wed Dec 2 02:24:52 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by AlM on Wed Nov 25 18:50:02 2015. Fun fact: There have been thousands of studies of acupuncture.Collectively, they prove it's a complete sham with no effect whatsoever. However, there have been so many studies done that some of them show acupuncture as being effective by chance alone. After all, if you compare Treatment X with a placebo, even if Treatment X is completely ineffective, there is a small chance that the experimental group will do better than the placebo group by random chance. In a well-designed experiment, the odds of such a fluke are low— but if you repeat the experiment enough times, those low chances add up. Because acupuncture is so over-studied, you can easily find one or two studies which contain such a fluke to "prove" it's effective even though it clearly isn't. |
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