Thanks for trying to be rational and educated. It won’t appreciated by many, but thanks.
Comment on Miracle cures
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not true:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0165032714003620
www.cghjournal.org/article/…/fulltext
I found more, too.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This study is absolutely terrible.
The study found no differences in the first four weeks. More than 10% dropped out during the study. The study was too small a sample to draw any serious conclusions from. The conclusions they did draw from were a subsample of people they declared treatment resistant. They even say in the paper their isn’t enough data to suggest their was any benefit, just not forcefully enough. Just enough to make low information readers think the study was successful.
This study was done in response to two other studies. One which showed no benefit another that suggested a benefit, but the study lacked a control group. So no meaningful conclusion could be drawn.
Finally the researchers were funded by ‘health supplement’ groups.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m not saying the study is good, just that the meme isn’t true.
Also, you can level almost every single one of those criticisms against many studies for SSRIs and they’d hit just as hard. The exception being sample size.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The evidence is much better for SSRI, and it isn’t great, but the referred paper even points out that the curriculum wasn’t as effective as an SSRI.
The meme remains true, no proper or valid studies exist. The existence of a paper doesn’t prove that, the paper is self addresses it wasn’t a proper study. They just did it in a dishonest way.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why are you completely ignoring the second paper I linked, which doesn’t suffer from any of the limitations you mentioned?
The meme says no trial was successful. Any trial with any small difference is a successful trial.