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Agree with what you are using as a rule of thumb. However there is the other point of view also.

Unexpected leaps forward in a scientific discipline, especially in medicine, should be met with great skepticism.

Many advances in medicine also seem to have been suppressed by vested interests: E.g., http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes



for women with dense breast tissue is a sub population so it's not 3x as effective for everyone.

A much better example IMO is checklists. There cheap if somewhat demeaning and drastically reduce hospital infections among other things, but for various reasons there not in widesperad use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost


Heard him on NPR last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Z7iUHlLSY (5:49)


That's pretty clearly not the story here. This isn't some Robin Hood trying to save medical science by flying under the radar, but rather a shyster trying to avoid getting exposed.

There's a very simple way for Healbe to clear the air: release their supposed science. Publicly released scientific data has a much better chance of changing the status quo than a sketchy-looking crowdfunding campaign.




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