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1/ A null field like #homeopathy can exhibit large effect sizes, high rates of favorable results, and high citation impact in the published scientific literature. Null fields may represent a useful negative control for the scientific process. @EdzardErnst @gorskon
2/ We aimed to characterize a null field using a known example, homeopathy (a pseudoscientific medical approach based on using highly diluted substances), as a prototype..
3/ The mean effect size for homeopathy was 0.36 standard deviations (Hedges’ g; 95% CI: 0.21, 0.51) better than placebo, which corresponds to an odds ratio of 1.94 (95% CI: 1.69, 2.23) in favor of homeopathy. 80% of studies had positive effect sizes (favoring homeopathy).
1/ I've searched for psychiatrists who are experts in both pharmacology and therapy to see if I can find any. Many psychiatrists' therapy training is limited to psychoanalytic and only by being analyzed themselves. It seems to rot their understanding of brains.
2/ I am greatly disappointed in child psychiatrists who treat audiences like children, including psychologists. Without a basis, they insist they are "literally the expert" when they actually know little about meds or therapy.
3/ I watched citizen-scientists from the chronic fatigue community try to correct psychiatrists about the safety and efficacy of harmful cognitive behavioral therapy for their condition and saw the psychiatrists respond like assholes.
