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A comment on Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments. Parent comment

Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by simonh on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:02AM (#13883323)
I don't trust a journalist to evaluate whether this treatment was valid or not. I have more trust in the several stem cell therapy experts who wrote detailed technical takedowns of the failed treatment and contrasted it with a much better one.
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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by csydas on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:36AM (#13883687)
Are you referring to another instance where this happened or to something in the article where you felt that the journalist reporting was making an assertion?

I cannot identify any statement or section within the article where the journalist themselves makes a claim or assertion as to the validity of the treatment, but instead just numerous citations and reports from other agencies and persons who are qualified to comment on it.

Can you please clarify what you are discussing?

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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:19AM (#13883382)
> detailed technical takedowns of the failed treatment

Any a layman could make it through?

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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by lawless123 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:51AM (#13883987)
>I don't trust a journalist to evaluate whether this treatment was valid or not.

It's safe to say a child could evaluate that blinding someone is an invalid outcome.

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