So you have a theory personally developed and promoted by an enthusiastic individual, a whole slew of positival anecdotal evidence, but no actual proper experimental verification. Sound much like—ooh any complementary or alternative medical treatment you’d care to mention? Are you sure you’re being fully rational here?
A difference is the considerable rat-based theoretical/experimental justification for why it should work. Seth Roberts claims that he came up with the theory first and then invented the diet, which he then found to work for him.
Most alternative medicines/practices have clearly insane theory behind them. I don’t know anything about nutrition, so I can’t tell you whether it makes sense or not, but I can spot most pseudoscience a mile off.
That was enough to raise it out of the background lunacy. So I tried it and it seems to work for me. I couldn’t agree more that a proper test is needed!
And if this sort of evidence can be overlooked/ignored for large clinical trials, what other sorts of partially or totally valid alternative treatments might be receiving similar improper treatment?
Far fewer than are correctly being ignored because the evidence and practices of alt medicine, and their studies, suffer from all the problems of regular medicine plus countless fascinating old & new pathologies of their own.
So you have a theory personally developed and promoted by an enthusiastic individual, a whole slew of positival anecdotal evidence, but no actual proper experimental verification. Sound much like—ooh any complementary or alternative medical treatment you’d care to mention? Are you sure you’re being fully rational here?
A difference is the considerable rat-based theoretical/experimental justification for why it should work. Seth Roberts claims that he came up with the theory first and then invented the diet, which he then found to work for him.
Most alternative medicines/practices have clearly insane theory behind them. I don’t know anything about nutrition, so I can’t tell you whether it makes sense or not, but I can spot most pseudoscience a mile off.
That was enough to raise it out of the background lunacy. So I tried it and it seems to work for me. I couldn’t agree more that a proper test is needed!
And if this sort of evidence can be overlooked/ignored for large clinical trials, what other sorts of partially or totally valid alternative treatments might be receiving similar improper treatment?
Far fewer than are correctly being ignored because the evidence and practices of alt medicine, and their studies, suffer from all the problems of regular medicine plus countless fascinating old & new pathologies of their own.