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Originally Posted by marichiko
snip You also seem extremely ignorant of the scientific method. snip
snip He then has to find a statistically acceptable number of patients with the same symptoms. Once he's done that, he and his grad students have to do research involving a double blind study that will be acceptable to a scientific, peer reviewed journal such as JAMA.
JAMA accepts the paper for publication and it comes out 6 months later. The government finally adds the condition to its list of disabling conditions 5 years later.
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Marichiko, I believe you stated you were a librarian? For thirty years? How current is
your molecular biology? There could be more than one reason that people are not racing to consult you on scientific matters.
Case reports are written on patients with very rare diseases; there is no need to find an 'acceptable number of patients with the same symptoms' before reporting something new. Clinical studies are structured in different ways. While the double blind prospective study is the gold standard, not everything can be studied that way. There are many other study types that are acceptable to peer-reviewed journals.
Your summary of how the research world works is out in left field. A little less posturing on what constitutes a 'scientist' or the 'scientific method' would become you better.