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You don't have to claim the girl is making it up for the result to be untrustworthy. There is a reason placebo controlled double blind trials are used in moder
by daveguy 10y ago
You don't have to claim the girl is making it up for the result to be untrustworthy. There is a reason placebo controlled double blind trials are used in modern medicine. That amount of rigor is required to be certain that the observed effect wouldn't have just happened. People can get better because the human body is good at self-regulation. The placebo effect is also a real effect. The standard set for modern medicine is that the treatment must be better than the placebo effect.
- tim333 10y agoIn this case where she couldn't see for five years and then suddenly could after the stem cells it seems unlikely to be a placebo effect.
- daveguy 10y agoUnlikely, but you still have an N=1. This is a case study, not proof of efficacy. It was an unknown ocular pressure that caused the blindness and could very well be an unknown and unrelated reaction that caused the recovery. Just because one event happens after another event does not mean one event caused the other. Very interesting, and worth attention and further study, but not proof.