On Sat, 29 May 1999, Vicki Price wrote:
 
> I think it's pathetic that anyone would want to
> spend so much time trying to demean even published medical information,
> saying it's not a worthwhile study, without even seeing the full text.
>
> To refute and belittle the findings of The American Journal of Sports
> Medicine and The American Orthopedic Society is pathetic.
 
I haven't seen an issue of the AJSM, but if it's anything like either of
the big 2 US medical journals (Journal of the American Medical Association
and The New England Journal of Medicine), then it probably has a "Letters"
section where *doctors* refute and comment on the findings of published
studies. I've seen a few studies in the NEJM that were set up in such a
skewed fashion, that I was amazed the editors accepted it for publication.
 
My point is that anything published in a medical journal can and should be
scrutinized, and not taken as the absolute truth.
 
-Indy Rutks ([log in to unmask])
 
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