Q for Taai Gihk Yahn

[Mr Punch]

Watcha Chris,

a while back, under your other moniker, you posted a link to a really cool medical myth study directory, but it seems we can't search for things from your old moniker... could you post it again please?

[taai gihk yahn]

are you talking about quackwatch?

http://www.quackwatch.com/

[Mr Punch]

Cheers, think that's the one.

[taai gihk yahn]

kewl

have fun

[David Jamieson]

holy crap!!!

There's a lot of stuff there.

Should i just print it all out and start randomly beating stupid hippies with it?

[taai gihk yahn]

holy crap!!!

There's a lot of stuff there.

Should i just print it all out and start randomly beating stupid hippies with it?

don't forget the New Age-ers as well...

seriously though, I'd say that instead to give it a solid read-through: there's some very good stuff, and some not so good stuff; e.g. - his complete and total dismissal of acupuncture / TCM, chiropractic, osteopathy, etc. is a bit one-sided, and does ignore some of the more recent research which is much better designed than what was around even 5 to 10 years ago; like anything, there's personal bias involved, but it's a good resource, especially if you are, like myself, a practitioner who uses some of what he "debunks" (in my case, osteopathic manual therapy), because it points to the potential pitfalls of methodologies that can easily drift into excessive subjectivity, and not take into account things like general tendency of human physiology to move towards homeostasis,m especially when given just about any sort of input that decreases sympathetic tone...