Poor alternative medicine studies breach ethics

Research Intelligence - Alternative outcomes

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#1 Submitted by craig.... on June 13, 2022 - 8:00pm

Hear, hear. The number of articles I’ve had across my desk purporting to test some aspect of some alternative medicine that simply assume from the get-go that it works… What a bleeding waste of everybody’s time and money.

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