alt Hacker News> I actually tried contacting some researchers locally, because I live near a university hospital that does a lot of research into testing for cancer. They basically said it was impossible and to stop wasting their time… like damn okay sorry
Too bad. I guess a blind study with a control group wouldn't be too hard to conduct. Worst case, it was a waste of time. Otherwise, might lead to interesting discoveries.
It was clearly wrong for them to be immediately dismissive of the claim (particularly since there are a number of existing studies that support it).
> I guess a blind study with a control group wouldn't be too hard to conduct.
However, you would be surprised how difficult this is to do. As soon as you are doing any sort of research involving human beings, even if that research is plainly innocuous for the subjects and technically easy to conduct, everything gets very complicated due to regulations meant to prevent misconduct and abuse.