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by noetic_techy 2784 days ago
I wouldn't call experience handling hundreds of patients in in a major metro area such as NY City "anecdotal".

None of this smelled of alt-med ranting. It's the true accounts of a therapist who saw the deficiencies of the system from the inside.

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It is exactly anecdotal evidence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

This person is using their one personal experience as a general indictment of the field rather than using any kind of controlled method to consider outcomes which is the only way to determine if a field of medicine is doing more good than harm or vice versa.