I did med school in Germany 35 years ago and briefly practiced psychiatry thereafter. Long story, irrelevant to your post. I recall just enough to know how to read professional peer-reviewed papers and when to become suspect. I maintain a NEJM subscription.
I'm suspect of anything with a100% success rate, because medicine is the most primitive of the sciences. This does not make me a denier, it makes me someone who is not fully-convinced about most things, especially single small studies with astonishing results. I recall the definition of the scientific method containing the word "replicable" or repeatable. The referenced study is a data point. I want to wait until an expert institution in medical data analysis, such as Johns Hopkins University, has enough trials analyzed to offer an informed opinion. I know we're not there yet.
I did med school in Germany 35 years ago and briefly practiced psychiatry thereafter. Long story, irrelevant to your post. I recall just enough to know how to read professional peer-reviewed papers and when to become suspect. I maintain a NEJM subscription.
I'm suspect of anything with a100% success rate, because medicine is the most primitive of the sciences. This does not make me a denier, it makes me someone who is not fully-convinced about most things, especially single small studies with astonishing results. I recall the definition of the scientific method containing the word "replicable" or repeatable. The referenced study is a data point. I want to wait until an expert institution in medical data analysis, such as Johns Hopkins University, has enough trials analyzed to offer an informed opinion. I know we're not there yet.