[zaptheimpaler]

Its not anecdotes, its a multi year study of 1200 people. Also people often forget that there are many things science doesn't know, many health problems we have no good answers for, and that anecdotes & intuition are the only way we can generate hypotheses to validate scientifically in the first place.

[JshWright]

I suspect the parent comment is referring to the comment section (which is indeed full of anecdotes).

[brucephillips]

There have been many, many studies discrediting the folk remedies proferred in this thread.