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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by modeless on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:53AM (#13885470)
> this has nothing to do with the scenario of an unproven stem cell therapy. There the chances are 99,99999% vs. 0.00001%.

You can't just say that unproven treatments never work. Did you even read the article? There's an example of an unproven stem cell therapy that may have worked right there!

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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by jawbone3 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:50AM (#13886007)
No, there is an example of a careful study showing promise. The unproven treatment is the one that made three people blind, don't mix them up.
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