• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 days ago

    Cherry picking means taking things out of context to misrepresent the state of the facts. I gave a broad overview of many different studies, large and small, which all show the same thing. Let mew know what part of that you’re struggling to understand here.

    Also, it’s hilarious that you think I’m secretly upvoting myself here or something like I give a shit about picking up votes on some old thread.

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      4 days ago

      The context that you provided was

      there are plenty of peer reviewed studies showing that acupuncture is effective, here are just a few examples:

      Then someone actually checks your evidence and finds they’re admitting to using low quality studies/evidence. That’s entirely in context. You just don’t like being called out for it.