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Turns out, medication tends to work with much more people than prayer or Reiki... Drugs seem to work much more reliably.
by bayesianhorse 12y ago
Turns out, medication tends to work with much more people than prayer or Reiki...
Drugs seem to work much more reliably.
- DanBC 12y agoBut the reason we know whether a medication works or not is by well conducted trials, not by giving it to a few people and asking how they feel. It is exactly this kind of thinking that pharmaceutical companies are exploiting when they hide results from trials.
- pessimizer 12y agoI wasn't referring to any comment about "medication" or "drugs" in general, but to a comment about Prozac and similar drugs. When you study them, they absolutely don't work better than the pre-SSRI antidepressants, and neither of them work much better than placebo. When you don't study them and just know that they work because you have taken them, they work just as well as prayer and Reiki.