Winter’s Haven

In the wake of the news that NICE approved acupuncture and chiropractic treatments for lower back pain, Daniel Davies has written a fantastic article at Crooked Timber on how politics makes it much more difficult to rationally evaluate the effectiveness of treatments on the evidence.

Doing science is hard to begin with. When large amounts of taxpayer money get handed out based on what “the evidence” says, a host of new obstacles arise.

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