>on the scale of evidence scientific studies are not the highest good, Hear, hear. There's a highly effective headache medicine called Midrin which has been p

>on the scale of evidence scientific studies are not the highest good, Hear, hear. There's a highly effective headache medicine called Midrin which has been pulled from the market because the FDA demanded proof that it was effective, and it wasn't profitable enough to be worth doing the studies. It predates the law that required medicines be proven effective (as opposed to just safe), so it was grandfathered...for about four decades. Four decades of patient experience (plus however long it was on the market before that) ought to be enough to say, yes, this stuff does work. >the real world trumps it (which is actually a core tenant of any decent theory of science, "Tenet".