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A comment on Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure (2010). Parent comment

Re:Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure (2010) by RankingMember on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:29PM (#10216949)
"Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective improvement in cognition beginning within 3-6 months, with the one failure being a patient with very late stage AD."

The way this sentence (from the abstract) hedges by including "subjective OR objective" hardly makes this sound like a "real cure". As the summary notes, "These anecdotal results suggest the need for a controlled clinical trial of the therapeutic program."

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Re:Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure (2010) by mhkool on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:12PM (#10222226)
Notwithstanding the cautious phrasing of the author, 9 of 10 patients had such huge improvements, from not being able to work and forgetting everything, to the opposite, that I take the liberty of calling that a 'cure'.
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Re:Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure (2010) by RankingMember on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:06AM (#10226219)
A sample size of 10 is hardly something to base any meaningful conclusions on.
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