Fair enough. Well, I’d argue that whilst that is in some narrow sense possibly true, there are many, many treatments and ‘cures’ (there go the quotes again) that are self-evidently dangerous bullshit (i.e. Antivaxxers, prayer -placebo effect notwithstanding, nutritionists promoting dangerous diets to avoid spurious ‘allergies’ and so forth - first-hand knowledge of that one via a friends’ youngster being ‘diagnosed’ with a load of hooey. Good job she went to a doctor for a second opinion). And, with the greatest respect, I’ve memories (woolly, I’ll admit) of you espousing views somewhat orthogonal to the scientific method back on OG BoingBoing (christ knows what it was now, one of those triple-digit post high-falutin’ flamewars we all know, love, and come here specifically to get embroiled in… 
).
Another thing about the scientific method is that things only get to that stage if someone’s already done a quite significant amount of work to make a case that such a study should be done. So there’s every chance that said treatments aren’t languishing untested, but that the scientific method (given it’s intrinsic hidebound-ness and politicking, natch) has already gone, “Nah, fuck it. Waste of time”.
Haven’t seen you much our post-disqus gated community though, so hail and well met and that.
Edit: Christ, but I love me some brackets. My bloody paragraphs look like pseudocode. I need me an editor…
