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Your argument appears to be that the word "integrative" implies non-science based medicine/research. Is there any reason to believe the journal Cancer is in som

Your argument appears to be that the word "integrative" implies non-science based medicine/research. Is there any reason to believe the journal Cancer is in some way lacking in scientific standards? I have no idea. But assuming it is a well-respected publication the results appearing in it require more evidence to dismiss other than a paper author does "integrative" research.

tokenadult 12y ago
One of my problems with this study (and many preliminary medical intervention studies hyped mostly by press releases) is that it deals with a biomarker--telomere length--rather than with a hard endpoint, for example actual improved cancer survival and reduced all-cause mortality in the patients. Anyone looking on can read the paper for themselves for issues like sample size, the reported statistics, whether the expected finding was specified in advance, and so on. A recent submission to HN[1] cautions that press releases are not usually good guides to what a study has actually found. [1] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/communicating-health-science-news/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/communicating-health-sci...
- cscurmudgeon 12y ago
  > One of my problems with this study (and many preliminary medical intervention studies hyped mostly by press releases) is that it deals with a biomarker--telomere length--rather than with a hard endpoint, for example actual improved cancer survival and reduced all-cause mortality in the patients. That is not an issue with the study's quality. It is more of an issue with the study's motive (goal?).