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> The major issue with this paper and this protocol is that it is not reproducible.

Sorry, such claim is a pure bullshit. It is reproducible, even the parts of the suggested treatment lead to significant improvements in quality of life for affected patients.

What we have here is: 1) the paper has some claims 2) it has weak theoretical coverage 3) it does not perform orthogonal hypothesis validation (validating each parameter in isolation) 4) the size of trial is small

Plus some political plays between scientific society participants.

But it is far from non-reproducible. There are a few people in the field who had big successes with similar therapies. (Dr. Derrick Lonsdale)



The treatment varies for the patients. How would someone reproduce treatments if they don’t know how the particular elements are selected?




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