[derleth]

> Are you saying it will never potentially be a cure?

Well, I'm saying that the alt-med scammers can come up with 500 new 'potential cures' in the time it takes the real medical world to test one.

And that testing requires so many resources, especially in terms of the time of skilled people who should be doing something more likely to be productive, that it will likely never be done.

This reasoning applies more to stuff that's obvious nonsense, like everything that has suppurated out of the festering wound that is homeopathy, but everything goes through a period where the default reaction is skepticism. That's called science. That's what works.

[marshallp]

Yeah, but this isn't fix-it-in-mexico scam. This is potential med-tech that just needs big-money-mafia to make it rain.

[derleth]

> This is potential med-tech that just needs big-money-mafia to make it rain.

The sad fact is, a lot of potential therapies that are a lot more promising than this is will turn out to be dead ends. Unless there's a good reason to think this specific proposed therapy has at least as much chance of panning out as all the other proposed therapies the various labs have already come up with, there's no reason to spend a lot of resources on it.