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Introduction | |
The Rise of Complementary and Alternative Therapies | |
A Brief History of Placebos | |
Natural Impediments to Making Valid Inferences | |
Impediments That Prevent our Physicians and Therapists From Making Valid Inferences | |
Impediments that Prevent Poorly Trained Scientists from Making Valid Inferences | |
Why Randomized Placebo Control Groups Are Necessary in CAM Research | |
Judging the Credibility and Plausibility of Scientific Evidence | |
Some Personal Research | |
How We Know that the Placebo Effect Exists | |
A Bio-Chemical Explanation for the Placebo Effect | |
Do CAM Therapies Work Or Are They Placebo Effects? Evidence From High Quality Randomized Placebo Controlled Trials | |
Do CAM Therapies Work Or Are They Placebo Effects? Evidence From High Quality Systematic Reviews | |
How CAM Therapies Are Hypothesized to Work | |
Tying Up a Few Loose Ends | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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