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- And again! More muscle knot squishing science, different experiment, same results
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Classic article, classic quote
From Dr. Edzard Ernst’s classic 2000 article in the British Medical Journal:
“Those who believe that regulation is a substitute for evidence will find that even the most meticulous regulation of nonsense must still result in nonsense.”
This is often quoted, but rarely with the source cited or a link to the full article. It’s short, accessible [...]
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Your chronic pain may not have a solution
Recently a reader asked for my opinion on a website about a miracle cure for some serious, chronic muscle pain — one of the most common kinds of requests I get. It was one of the most extreme example of a too-good-to-be-true cure I have seen in a while, and that’s saying something. I’ve been [...]
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Wishful thinking does not get much more wishful than this