drethelin comments on How to tell apart science from pseudo-science in a field you don’t know ?

[drethelin]

Because there’s no cure?

[James_Miller]

But there could still be studies demonstrating that some treatments had no effect.

[Luke_A_Somers]

That raises the question—did that opening sentence of the head reply mean ‘showing the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of any method’, or ‘showing a method to be effective’?

[James_Miller]

I meant to imply “effectiveness or ineffectiveness”

[Luke_A_Somers]

Thanks