OT: Stupid "scientific" research

What experiment did you perform to show that it really is keeping the air off the wart which does the trick as opposed to, say, something in the glue?

Tim

For future research, I propose a new set of experiments:

Optimal Duct Tape Removal Velocity for Treatment of Warts.

I'm guessing a velocity just below Mach 1 should do it...

;-)

The first time I heard of the technique, it was with white "adhesive tape", the kind that you get at the pharmacy alongside the gauze and stuff.

There could have been some magical ingredient there too, but how do we know that that same magical ingredient wasn't in the glue on the "placebo" patch?

Thanks, Rich

The placebo group got one of those 'corn' pads, with a hole in the middle, so there was tape around it, but it got air...

Charlie

Or just a reminder that it exists. I've heard that painting a wart with a bright dye can make it go away. too.

A Mississippi folk remedy is to poke it a bunch of times with a needle. It seems to wake up the body's immune system to the fact that the thing should be dealt with.

Liquid nitrogen, applied with a q-tip, works well, and has less collateral damage than burning.

John

That's what my dermatologist guy does with my pre-cancerous spots on the back of my hands.

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Now if i did that, i would not know what to do about all of those warts growing in the back yard...

That's simple - Let them grow up into shrooms and eat them! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Science is better than ever. It's TV and its viewers that have gone downhill.

-- Joe Legris

They sound like 'roids to me. Wack a cable tie around them and snug it up tight.

They make ones big enough to go around your neck, too.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

No, i don't think you are getting the idea yet. This "research" by some graduate student, actually got funded by willfully know-nothing bureaucrats. Is this how you want your taxes spent?

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The original article appeared in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. (2006;160:1121-1125) which is a peer-reviewed journal of the American Medical Association. Do you have any suggestions for a better system to conduct and assess the value of scientific research? How about a committee of untrained regular folk who judge research on the basis of whether or not it seems reasonable? Or maybe a church-based system? They seem to have a good sense of what's right and what's wrong. George Bush has dabbled lately in "interpreting" science - if he can do it, anybody can.

Here's a link to the abstract:

And here's a link to another article in the same journal criticising the first.

Wouldn't it be nice if government and industryl could rise to a comparable standard of openess, objectivity and self-regulation?

-- Joe Legris

[snip]

A few thousand on researching the efficacy of inexpensive cures for common ailments? Yes, that's definitely how I want some of my taxes spent.

Tim

As compared to ?????

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During election years, politicians make speeches about how concerned they are with wasteful spending, the deficit, and the fiscal woes of the nation. But as soon as the television cameras are turned off, they brag about the pork that they are bringing home to their state or district. This hypocrisy has helped to create a $521 billion deficit and a $7.1 trillion national debt.

While $200,000 for recreation improvements in North Pole, Alaska or $100,000 to renovate a Coca-Cola building in Macon, Georgia may seem insignificant in the grand fiscal scheme of the country, such projects represent a corruption of the budget process. Too many members of Congress are more concerned about bringing home the bacon for their re-election than they are about the fiscal future of this country. To make the American people more aware of the connection between pork and the deficit, each earmark should bear a sticker on it that reads, "This project helped contribute to the $521 billion deficit." Maybe then Members of Congress wouldn't be so proud of their pork and taxpayers would demand greater accountability on Capitol Hill.

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