Talk:Traditional Chinese medicine

message: Add space between period after Act and They in Taiwan subsection of the Regulations section. Ret2pop (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Cannolis (talk) 01:40, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 January 2024 

message: — Assignment last updated by FeliceRCLi (talk) 23:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Health Psychology

message: Citation 6 leads to a porn site, I don't intend to be an editor but I figured I'd let someone know that for whatever reason the citation link is not functional GargantuanChungoid (talk) 02:57, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged it as a dead link. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:02, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

text: I searched for the title of the citation and relinked it to the original website. It should work now. FeliceRCLi (talk) 01:40, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I can't read the text, but it looks fixed to me. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:15, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation 6 

message: There have actually been over 13,000 studies in 60 countries proving acupuncture is effective. Here are 30+ links to some of these studies. Not sure how your 2 references beat out 13,000+ References:
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4. Birch S, Lee MS, Alraek T, et al. Overview of Treatment Guidelines and Clinical Practical Guidelines That Recommend the Use of Acupuncture: A Bibliometric Analysis. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Published Online First: 18 June 2018. doi:10.1089/acm.2018.0092
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30. Cho ZH, Hwang SC, Wong EK, et al. Neural substrates, experimental evidences and functional hypothesis of acupuncture mechanisms. Acta Neurol Scand 2006;113:370–7. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0404.2006.00600.x
31. Lund I, Lundeberg T. Mechanisms of Acupuncture. Acupuncture and Related Therapies Published Online First: 2016. doi:10.1016/j.arthe.2016.12.001
32. Vickers A, Goyal N, Harland R, et al. Do certain countries produce only positive results? A systematic review of controlled trials. Control Clin Trials 1998;19:159–66.
33. Tian J, Zhang J, Ge L, et al. The methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews from China and the USA are similar. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2017;85:50–8. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.12.004
34. McGauran N, Wieseler B, Kreis J, et al. Reporting bias in medical research – a narrative review. Trials 2010;11:37. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-11-37
35. Lee K, Bacchetti P, Sim I. Publication of clinical trials supporting successful new drug applications: a literature analysis. PLoS Med 2008;5:e191. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050191
36. Heneghan C, Mahtani KR, Goldacre B, et al. Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare: A response to systematic bias, wastage, error and fraud in research underpinning patient care. Evidence-Based Medicine 2017;22:120–2. doi:10.1136/ebmed-2017-j2973repsources to use: Also, this Wikipedia lead helps prove that Wikipedia has an agenda to continue the massive industrial complexes that anti-human and greed based. 208.104.54.103 (talk) 01:28, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: —reply: "I can confidently say given that you reject the effectiveness of modern medicine and are invoking big pharma conspiracies that you are a crank, and that it's not worth wasting by time talking to you. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:48, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agreed. This lead is false and misleading. Over 13,000 studies in 60 countries prove so.