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To: i-node who wrote (161206)	4/23/2020 4:31:38 PM
From: Lane3	4 Recommendations Recommended By bentway CentralParkRanger combjelly Terry Maloney Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 363455

I don't feel compelled to start an argument with you about this, but anecdotal evidence is generally the basis for a hypothesis which is then subjected to testing under the Scientific Method. Nice of you to bold that for me. Just in case I forgot that I had already made that point in my message, the one to which you responded. A collection of anecdotes may lead to a study but are not a study. This is how the indiscriminate use of radical mastectomy was overcome by the anecdotally equivalent results of lumpectomy Indeed. Those accumulated anecdotes lead to studies which lead to the acceptance of lumpectomy. Anecdotes lead to studies. They are not studies. I believe a highly competent anecdotal study exists that is far more powerful than the VA study, although it is not yet available as a paper. At such time as you encounter a product labeled by scientists as an "anecdotal study," please be sure to call it to my attention. I would appreciate the opportunity to see pigs fly.