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Is this unique allergy treatment groundbreaking — or fraud? https://undark.org/2021/04/28/unorthodox-allergy-clinic-disrupt-medicine/ “Something rubbed me the wrong way,” Neuman said of SoCal’s secrecy. “It flies in the face of most of the things that I believe about science. You know, if someone was sitting on a cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s and wasn’t sharing it, I’d be very suspicious.” Indeed, in interviews with Undark, numerous allergists expressed concern about the SoCal clinic’s approach, yet many hesitated to go on record criticizing a method that has not been published in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal.

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🚩🚩🚩 Too much of this is proprietary, down to the in-house lab. The critiques around secrecy and publishing select studies in pay-to-play journals are absolutely valid. “The reviewers will say the same thing. They’ll say, ‘Well, we don’t understand this concept. We don’t understand the analytics,’” contrasted with the refusal to collaborate with groups like CoFAR and Mount Sinai makes me feel like they don't want people to look too closely at the process. The actual treatment described here does not seem that different from an elimination + rotation introduction diet, which isn't a new concept. Idk. Having been through a lot of allergy testing — old-school subcutaneous and contemporary skin tests — I know allergies need a better form of treatment, but I'm not sure this is it.

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I am dubious too but did not want to say so outright here because i didn’t want to fight with ppl calling me decel Working in gut health I see variations on this all the time. You have desperate suffering people. They will try anything

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Such great insight! And agree from what the article mentioned, it seems what they're doing is more traditional approach painted as innovation.

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