[neverdem]

BTW, how did you retrieve this thread?

Call it a study, experiment, whatever. This is the closest way of doing what's called a double blind, placebo controlled test, the gold standard in medicine, in a surgical specialty, as opposed to a medical one in which neither the patient nor the dispenser of the medicine knows whether the patient is getting a real medicine or a sugar pill.

Most surgical procedures have never been adopted on the basis of double blind, placebo controlled studies. Surgeons adopt procedures because that's what they were taught. Many orthopedic surgeons have been doing arthroscopic procedures on patients with osteoarthritis of the knees for years. It was just recently announced that patients who had the procedure did no better than patients who had a sham procedure in which those patients had the same external incisions, but little else and no cutting or scraping within the joint.

[BykrBayb]

BTW, how did you retrieve this thread?

I was looking at the Delaware threads.