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Placebo is known to be good! It's reasonable that Reiki should be compared with no intervention, which is the realistic alternative.
by learnstats2 7y ago
Placebo is known to be good!
It's reasonable that Reiki should be compared with no intervention, which is the realistic alternative.
- lostcolony 7y agoReasonable if evaluating your treatment options, and those are the only two available to you. Not reasonable if you are trying to determine the best treatment options and others exist, such as "anything with actual clinical trials that show it more effective than placebo", which is hardly an unrealistic alternative.
- mcv 7y agoThe article emphasises that Reike should only be used in combination with actual proven clinical treatment, and not as a replacement of those (which is obvious and dangerous quackery). So compare clinical treatment with Reiki on the side to clinical treatment without Reiki. And maybe also clinical treatment with a more conventional placebo on the side.