Absolutely I will correct you as you invited me to
Yes, it is a placebo even if a 1000 posters claim its benefits.
No different from all the audiophiles waxing about the benefits of Wallhala cables, cable lifters, pebbles, any other voodoo snake oil claimed audio products, unless it has properly passed bias controlled testing, plain and simple.
If it works, will that still deny it's efficacy because it wasn't done according to protocol?
If it works? It has not been established that it works, only claimed that it works. Many claims are made in audio that do not stand up to the testing protocol that is a must. Human psychology is such, due to gullibility and bias, that proper protocols have been established to counter such forces if valid results are what one is after. If a singular reality will do, no need for any testing what so ever.
What about Chinese medicine?
What about it? Most is unproven, anecdotes and testimonials. Same as the peroxide.
Western science over that last few decades has come to the conclusion that it works
Absolutely false. Western medicine has not come to that conclusion. What western medicine has come to is that it is unproven, ineffective and that China cannot adopt western medicine fast enough.
My point is sometimes science doesn't get around to "testing" all variables, specially some that might not be "high-brow" scientifically speaking (chicken soup).
Don't need to test all the variables, only the ones that matter. Unless you are implying Chinese medicine in general.
(a lot of people swear by it,
That is the whole point of the discussion. those testimonials are not valid. Lot of people swear by psychics, being abducted by aliens, Being able to levitate, holistic healing, audio cables, miracle quantum dot chips, magnets around wine bottles, magnets around water pipes. the list is endless what people swear by. So what.
I'll try again, most likely I will get another cold soon thanks to my kid, I'll give HP a try on the onset and take notes, wait for another cold, won't try it and take notes....not very scientific, but I would consider it a valid observation. Then I'll post.
Sorry, this is a flawed protocol. You are biased from the start; you cannot switch it off at will and don't know when it is on or off. What is needed is a placebo controlled protocol, DBT included. Sorry.
And, cables are cables right? Not a human body full of variables (and germs)
You are confusing the issues. Just because the human body is full of variables, means you need even better DBT protocols and placebo medicines to boot to validate any claims. What you proposed above is useless. Don't bother, just use it and be happy
