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by salad-tycoon 863 days ago
I’m a trained “hypno” clinician because I wanted to learn more about the study of suggestion and outcomes.

I remember studies coming out of China saying hypnotherapy could be effective in replacing anesthesia. Then I also found out about how there are many fraudulent studies coming out of China. (1)

With 17,000 retracted studies with Chinese coauthors since 2021.

Now that’s not to say that tai chai doesn’t work, nor does it mean this is fraudulent but it does pay to learn how to read these studies with a critical eye.

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00397-x