On Jul 28, 2:16*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"JimmyMac" wrote in message

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On Jul 24, 9:51 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
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Yes, the subtlety does indeed escape me. It is an alternative to
conventional medical practice and treatment. As long as you are not
relying
on it to the exclusion of what is KNOWN, I suppose it will not do any
harm.
But it is not KNOWN that it will do any good either.
[...]

There is a huge big difference between complimentary holistic approach
to conventional health care and reliance solely upon alternative
treatment and the distinction is none to subtle.

Some of the supplements I take have proved their worth in clinical

trials, so they are known to be of benefit.

Clinical trials are pretty worthless too. A double blind scientific study on
a large scale is just about the only way to prove something.

Obviously, the larger the test base, the more valid the data, but at
least some testing is being done in a controlled scientific clinicall
trials without which many of the drugs that we now have would not be
available.

--
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesotant