Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics
by benten10 on Friday February 06, 2015 @08:41AM
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Slightly off-topic, but a Bologna detection kit wouldn't be that difficult to construct: even standard CV software could detect standard Bologna in standard shape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage
On the other hand, I imagine Italian bologna is prepared with essential oils, so a working Bologna detection kit would also positively identify essential oils.
On the other hand, Sagan's kit would be quite a useful tool in detecting baloney.
As a non-native speaker, I was particularly thrown off by that, and had to look it up. :)
Do I agree with you! Apply the system to homeopathy, and most of it comes off as baloney. The saddest part is, it is often the people who would benefit from 'actual' medicine the most (the sick and the poor) that also fall into the homeopathy trap. At least in the neck of the woods I am from.
Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics
by DubiousPusher on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:11PM
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Ha, my mistake. Baloney is a word you hear frequently but don't see written very often. I presumed the slang used the spelling of the sausage it was derived from.
1. It is claimed the modality cures or treats a wide variety of otherwise unconnected symptoms.
2. Claims about the modality are unspecific. "It boosts the immune system." "It removes toxins."
3. It is claimed the modality is as effective as already substantiated treatments but trials are not controlled.
4. Purveyors of the treatment invoke any benefit besides its efficacy and side effect profile. They emphasize its antiquity or how natural it is.
5. Top researchers of the modality stand to profit from positive outcomes of their research.
6. There is no likely way for the treatment to work.
7. Trials are not double blinded.