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Public research lab
A publicly owned company that facilitates lab experiments by and for the public | |
Before the experiment starts experts are called in to review
the intended experiment and then to follow the analysis and
conclusions.
For example, I just met a (probably impostor) MD who
showed me a video of a simple experiment done with
intravenous Ozone therapy on chicken hearts. It should
be
very simple and cheap to reproduce, and the results, if as he
claims, should easily prove, or more likely disprove his point.
There's also an explanation of how it works and what the
Ozone does during this experiment (to the red blood cells)
which could easily be shown and proven. (Even in a high-
school lab!)
Hearts from chickens killed for food can be used in this
experiment.
Similar experiments can be repeated for the increasing
amount of people who believe in the ever more hysterical
alternative therapy movement, allowing these people to see
for themselves where the hoax lies.
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An attached restaurant and fitness center would be a
great place to recruit experimental subjects. |
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"The Mac and cheese is very cheap today, but also a
violet color." |
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"This is a new treadmill machine we just got in. Mind
the knives." |
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Sadly, even if this were workable it wouldn't achieve its
aim on public perception. |
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The alternative therapy sector has the misguided and
charlatans on one side and the misguided and desperate
on the other. Part of the narrative is that certain
illnesses are created/allowed/desired by the powers that
be and that certain therapies are suppressed/ignored by
those same groups. Having a government facility test
things, when most science is already government funded,
would do nothing to that narrative. |
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Its also unworkable. //Hearts from chickens killed for
food can be used in this experiment.// |
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Here's your first problem. Cardiac research is tough to
do, people in my lab dabble. The standard whole heart
experimental set up is the Langendorf perfused heart
system. You can't have any old heart from a random bird
inexpertly killed minutes or hours ago. Just getting a
working heart into your experimental rig takes months of
learning for a good, but not directly experienced
scientist. |
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So how big is your institute? how many people with how
much expensive equipment? Constantly re-tooling and
training to hit the nebulous moving goal posts of the
alternative contingent. |
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I had the idea a while ago to have a government research
establishment. The concept was to offer it as a stable
competitive parallel career type to regular research, but
have it focus on the reproducibility of published work. I
can see a role for replicating a few crucial experiments of
some publications, and perhaps detailed extensive extra
controls. The idea is to motivate researchers by having
the possibility of random selection to this process and to
add/remove credibility from certain publications. |
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It still doesn't work though, Even a trained cell biologist,
expert at imaging would take a year or more to get into
the position to replicate some of my experiments. |
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I think the key is to push public perception in the right
direction by attacking a few of the legitimate concerns of
the alternative crowd. Positive publication bias in drug
trials is a known problem. Drug companies just run a
whole load of trials and don't publish the ones where the
drug doesn't have the effect they want. Various industries
with vested interests are allowed to invest in
information/disinformation campaigns to help their
cause, e.g. sugar/tobacco/alcohol. While interventions
that don't work well are persisted with beyond the point
of being reasonable, fluoridated water vitamin
supplements. |
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