{"id":325,"date":"2009-01-07T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/01\/a_most_excellent_takedown\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:11:52","slug":"a-most-excellent-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/01\/a-most-excellent-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"a most excellent take-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\">Respectful Insolence<\/a>, one of Orac&#8217;s specialties is the dissection of various forms of jiggery-pokery\/hocus-pocus\/pseudoscientific nonsense. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2009\/01\/how_not_to_do_a_study.php\">This post of his<\/a> is well worth reading: it takes a recent paper on a purported &#8216;energy-healing&#8217; technique &amp; explains why what was done is very far indeed from good science. (It&#8217;s worth repeating the old aphorism that&nbsp;<i>the plural of &#8216;anecdote&#8217; is not &#8216;data&#8217;<\/i>.)&nbsp;You would have to wonder about the peer-review processes for that particular journal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Respectful Insolence, one of Orac&#8217;s specialties is the dissection of various forms of jiggery-pokery\/hocus-pocus\/pseudoscientific nonsense. This post of his is well worth reading: it takes a recent paper on a purported &#8216;energy-healing&#8217; technique &amp; explains why what was done is very far indeed from good science. 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