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This course explores the subject of applying modern research methodology to TCM.  It explains how research methods to determine how a therapy works are not the same as those which determine if a therapy even works at all, and in fact can produce inconclusive data if used improperly.  The limitations of using sham treatments as a control group is addressed, as is the relevance of any psychological aspects involved in an acupuncture treatment.

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Learning Objectives:

1) to learn what the main myths, or assumptions, are in modern medical research

2) to understand how current scientific methodology may be producing inconclusive evidence, both in complementary medicine like TCM, and in modern bio/allopathic medicine

3) to explore the concept of sham control validation, and how it should effect the future of research in the field of acupuncture and, in fact, all of medicine

4) to touch on the subject of placebos, and how in some situations they are considered to be a form of treatment, and in other situations they invalidate research