> All in all, the results of this study are important, but don't have any immediate impact on how current drugs are used I think.
Yes, I understand. These things take time. But imagine that a cancer drug is proven to be ineffective -- guess how long before clinicians would be required to stop prescribing it?
Yes, and more emotional than intellectual.
> But, will you stop something that seems to help the patient, just because in most cases it shouldn't really work.
If I had an alternative available that might actually work, that deserved more attention and research funding, I certainly would:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/magazine/02depression.html... (about Deep Brain Stimulation)
> All in all, the results of this study are important, but don't have any immediate impact on how current drugs are used I think.
Yes, I understand. These things take time. But imagine that a cancer drug is proven to be ineffective -- guess how long before clinicians would be required to stop prescribing it?