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Unproven Therapies

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Advances in modern medicine are achieved through basic and clinical research using well-established principles of experimentation. These include controlled clinical trials to assess the efficacy and safety of novel diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Publication of results and their replication in additional experiments performed by other independent scientists are necessary components of the process by which efficacy and safety are documented. The American Diabetes Association, the National Institutes of Health, and other health-related organizations sponsor diabetes-related research that adheres to these standards.

In contrast, unproven therapies tend to share certain characteristics:

• They tend to be developed and promoted in isolation from established scientific facilities and associations, and their developers and proponents generally . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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