The outliers: do scientific trials obscure some good treatment results? [4m]

[ Image caption: “Thinking at Hell’s gate” , by innoxiuss , CC BY 2.0 ] “ It worked for me .” Almost everyone, sooner or later, feels like they got some blessed relief from a remedy of dubious value — something that’s not supposed to work according to the science, something “alternative,” maybe something straight out of the folk medicine of people from the other side of the world. Perhaps it was…