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This month, the readership of this site has absolutely gone through the roof - and no, it doesn’t have anything to do with Edzard Ernst! Or at least, not much to do with him. “Inconsistencies in the Addiction Story” is the page everyone is reading, and despite recent fuss over other pages this remains [...]
Filed under: Nicotine, Smoking, The Book by Chris
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by hypnotherapist Chris Holmes
Show me a hundred different scientific studies into the efficacy (or lack thereof) of any kind of therapy. Will they all produce more or less the same findings? No. But why not? If the RCT is the gold standard of assessment, surely it will just come up with truth, will it not? [...]
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…when I suggested that the Department of Health KNEW THEY WERE LYING when they made all those claims for the supposed ‘effectiveness’ of nicotine replacement poisoning:
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/03/17/patrick-basham-the-doh-is-wrong-about-cessation/
Now: the plot thickens, as we hear rumours that the ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE is very likely to be BANNED in the U.K. towards the end of June - the only competition [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Hypnotherapy, Nicotine, The Campaign by Chris
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In The Times this week, doctors were beseeching patients with only ordinary ailments like coughs and colds to stop bothering the general practitioner for antibiotics that won’t help anyway - or that they just don’t need, really - and let nature take its course, or in other words have a bit of faith in your immune system.
Very [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, The Campaign by Chris
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Show me a hundred different scientific studies into the efficacy (or lack thereof) of any kind of therapy. Will they all produce more or less the same findings? No. But why not? If the RCT is the gold standard of assessment, surely it will just come up with truth, will it not? Isn’t this the [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, The Campaign by Chris
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by Chris Holmes
*Update: If you or a loved one has suffered a bad reaction to Champix and you are based in the U.K., you can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here. The more people do that the clearer the true picture will become. Protect others! Report [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Hypnotherapy, The Campaign by Chris
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