Mmmm..the question is..who would fund it. And if someone funded it, who would publish it...

adrianN 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You get funding for such a study the same way you get funding for anything else: first you run cheap small studies, perhaps in mice, perhaps observational, that show an interesting effect and motivate why you need money to run a proper clinical study.

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BLKNSLVR 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's enough money in 'crank health' that, if it were possible to publish something that might have a chance of lending some credibility (and thus expanding the breadth of the vulnerable customer base), then I would think it would have been done already.

This implies to me that the counter-evidence is strong and complete enough to discourage 'investment' into such a pursuit.

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qsera 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

>There's enough money in 'crank health' that,

But there is many order of magnitude more money invested in preventing the publication of something like that..

All the "reputed" journals who gets funded by pharma would not touch such a study, despite any merits it have. This is so apparent to anyone who is not completely oblivious of how the world work that no one in their right mind will even attempt to fund such a study...

	▲	BLKNSLVR 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They need to wait for someone not in their right mind then. Has RFK been petitioned? (this is not a serious reply, my apologies. I get that entrenched views are very difficult to change, hence the phrase "Science advances one funeral at a time", and funding sources are bias-generating - refer oil companies and climate change. Having said that, isn't any human that drinks any water taking part in homeopathy? I mean, dehydrated folks are likely to be less healthy than hydrated folks, but I think that's a case of correlation doesn't imply causation)

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antoniojtorres an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is this a bit? Please state your point clearly instead of conspiratorial innuendo.

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qsera an hour ago | parent [-]

I think the point is clear. If it is not clear to you, you are already beyond help...

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antoniojtorres an hour ago | parent [-]

More vagaries.

	▲	qsera 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Here is something real for you. Here is an insightful comment [1] in this thread but it is "dead" now, thanks to the down votes of true believers of "science". Any study that goes against the narrative despite any of the merits, would suffer the same fate as this comment. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728644