Originally Posted by
onlythetruth 
If you look closely, lots of studies are done but none of them have a control group (as TU correctly points out, the Big Kahuna of all studies, Project MATCH, showed that the three different recovery approaches tested had equal effectiveness compared with each other---but there was no control group, so we don't know if any of them was better than natural remission).
I had originally mentioned that there was no control group in the project MATCH study for "no treatment," but I went back and edited it out of my post. It is a very valid and pertinent observation, and one has to wonder why they would do that, since even a 7th grade science student knows you need a control group in an experiment. Still, I thought it might make me come off as biased towards no treatment, which admittedly, I am.
