As was pointed out earlier, any appropriately designed clinical trial must contain the means to show that a given treatment might be worthless. Perhaps this is why no attempt has as yet been made by the OAM to clinically evaluate the effectiveness of any alternative treatment. But independent investigators here and abroad have done so. Predictably, those conclusions were rejected by those who used these treatments. They charged that the test substances were given incorrectly, that antagonistic drugs were given to negate the effectiveness of the treatment and that the clinical data was incorrectly interpreted.
Most people are outraged when they discover that they have been victims of fraud.
Strangely, this is not the case with those who have been duped into spending huge sums for worthless alternative treatments. Often they remain among the most adamant proponents of the failed cure. An examination of medical history illustrates the price patients are willing to pay for hope, even when the hope is false. They have submitted to being half drowned in water, choked with gases, buried to their chins in earth, seared with hot irons, crimped with knives, had needles thrust into their flesh, had fires kindled on their skin, and swallowed all sorts of abominations. Then they pay for all this as if scalding were a privilege, blisters a blessing and leeches a luxury.