Where is this nonsense going? Not until the first large Randomised double-blind controlled trial returns a NEGATIVE result - i.e. that the active treatment arm is no better than placebo - will these AYUSH guys have any credibility for their methodology.
The great strength of #ModernMedicine (MM) is not that every new drug with an unpronounceable name coming out of the laboratory works. The great strength of MM is that 99% of these molecules are junked.
The great strength of #MM (Modern Medicine) is not that there are NO charlatans and crooks who do dodgy trials, practice #BadScience, and prescribe inappropriately. The great strength of MM is that these crooks are called out and put right by other, upright, and ethical doctors.
#MM has a long history of many promising and clever treatment ideas proposed by enthusiastic and clever doctors that have been tested in the red hot crucible of the #RCT - and have been abandoned as another 'good idea' that did not work.
The great strength of the #RCT - randomised controlled trial - is not that it can establish the role of a new drug or treatment. Done well and rigorously, the true value of an RCT is in showing up a much-touted treatment or drug for the useless quackery that it is.
Just as success in life and business is built on failures, successful treatments that really work, in #ModernMedicine, is built on the many drugs that fail to live up their early promise. "Where?", I ask, is the #AYUSH treatment that has been discarded as ineffective?
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