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In reply to the discussion: More surgical "woo." Gynecological surgeons added this procedure to their repertoire [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)Science is based on evidence not supposition. There - was - no - evidence, none, zip, nada, zilch.
None to support either the original operative procedure or its continuance. The effects were not reproducible, they were variable; there was no foundational hypothesis that could be falsified only the random guesses of a man who was little more than a butcher; there was no restricted cadre of test subjects; there was little if any monitoring of test subjects either before or after the operation.
What do you call science that is not based on evidence, that is not falsifiable, that ignores starting conditions and that does not monitor closing conditions (carry out follow up assessments) and that sells itself purely by the claims of the inventor and his publicity of unproven effects?
A hint - the word has 3 letters begins with W and ends in o