Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>> If, and this is a big if, it actually does do something in some obscure cases, I am
still not sure that the unfortunate side effect of finding this out, that of having a
huge number of people insist that it still does work for allergies, and pointing at
non-related studies of something that it does work for, is worth the relatively small
benefit that might be gained from it. 
> 
> That I have to disagree with. People claim and believe that new drugs do
> all sorts of things that they just can't, and we let those individuals
> promote and sell the drugs to doctors! If a treatment works, knowing
> about it is worth the fact that some people out there may try to spin
> things their own ways. Unfortunately, that happens, but it will happen
> with any treatment, new or old or rediscovered.

I did say "small benefit" right? If it was a huge one, I would say 
"weather the storm, until the clueless mostly disappear." The problem 
is, its hardly clear that the benefit is *large enough*, or couldn't be 
gained some other, less abuse prone, way.

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