Is There a Positive Correlation Between Acupuncture Treatments and Recovery of Cocaine Addicted Patients?
Question by Julie: Is there a positive correlation between acupuncture treatments and recovery of cocaine addicted patients?
Process of Science: Assume we have data indicating a strong positive correlation between acupuncture treatments and recovery of patients from, say, cocaine addiction. However, let’s also assume that every hypothesis we have for a mechanism of action (i.e., how acupuncture could work to help cure addiction) can be shown to be false. The patients, however, all claim to know that the acupuncture is what cured them. Which of the following conclusions are supported by our data?
Must acupuncture be responsible for the patients – recovery?
Best answer:
Answer by Nate
No. If you can only show a correlation, and every investigated mechanism of action is false, you wouldn’t conclude that acupuncture is the cause of recovery.
Edit: Alties, this is a question of logic. If you only have correlation, it does not follow to conclude that acupuncture “must” be responsible.
Edit: “However, let’s also assume that every hypothesis we have for a mechanism of action (i.e., how acupuncture could work to help cure addiction) can be shown to be false.”
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Mechanism of action has historically not been used as a benchmark in medical studies, and a huge number of medical studies have been accepted without one —
About 80% of conventional drugs have unknown “mechanism of action”.
Surgery is not supported by randomized studies that can prove a mechanism of action either. It’s based on a hypothesis, trial and error. Then you have a statistical model of clinical experience.
So you will be left in a position that without any opposing evidence to the contrary that acupuncture was responsible for the patient’s recovery and that the mechanism of action was “unknown” as it is in plenty of other studies.
You will have a positive correlation between the acupuncture treatments and the patients recovery, and it will invariably create a situation whereby other researchers will duplicate your work or not.
Then some armchair critic with no scientific credentials will come along and claim your study was “inconclusive”.
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u take it i can? tell
i for one think its a waste of money? to have anything like this made available, if you want to piss your life away and end up doing hand jobs for crack in the local ASDA carpark i say go for it
we can get rid of a fair few people this way – stop wasting the governments and my money on these self abusing people – fed up of helping those who take take take all the bloody time