There are LOTS of so-called "alternative cures" available and they all have a few things in common: decent videos, anecdotal stories (I know someone who got cured, I know someone who knows someone who got cured and so on) but no double blinded studies.
I'm 100% sure a few people will post something along the lines of "double blinded studies cannot be trusted" along with the usual "pharma companies are evil" stuff. Ok, pharma companies are evil and double blinded studies cannot be trusted. Then what's the alternative?
There are thousands of "alternative cures" out there,
how can we decide which is better without double blinded studies?
Now let me refer to the Robert Beck protocol for a moment. Ok, we read some anecdotal stories about how it worked for some people. But here is
an anecdotal story about how it didn't work for someone else.
Now what? You have anecdotal stories about how this protocol worked and you have anecdotal stories about how this protocol didn't work. How do you make an informed decision? Honest question.
Double blinded studies are not perfect but they sure are better than the alternatives I'm seeing.
Making decisions based on anecdotal stories is exactly like jumping to conclusions when it comes to a traffic source after just two visitors. WTF?
You need statistically relevant information if you're serious about making informed decisions.
Two visitors? Two anecdotal stories? So what?
Show me data for a few hundred visitors at the very least and you're on the right track. The more data you have at your disposal, the better.
The same way: show me data for at least a few hundred patients (something along the lines of "100 patients tried this product and it worked for x out of 100") and you're on the right track. The more data you have at your disposal, the better.
I consider myself an open minded person, so please prove me wrong.
Double blinded case studies suck. Ok, show me a viable alternative!
My honest advice: don't make important health-related decisions based exclusively on what you read on teh Interwebz, don't make important health-related decisions before talking to a doctor. If you believe in a therapy like this one and there are no life threatening side effects, give it a try but only AFTER doing what your doctor recommended (maybe surgery, maybe surgery + chemo, maybe surgery + chemo + radiation and so on).