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July 18, 2008
Research to refute the refutable
In his The Pulse article of July 18th Binding Heavy Metal Fears Anders Sandberg asks when clinical trials are to check whether a treatment doesn't work OK?
The US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is studying chelation therapy because many parents think heavy metals are the cause of their children's problems and give them chelation treatments anyway, not because researchers think it might be an efficient treatment.
Posted by Waldemar at July 18, 2008 06:00 PM