re is msg sensitivity superstition bruce data io com bruce reynolds writes anecedotal evidence is worthless even doctors who have been using a drug or treatment for years and who swear it is effective are often suprised at the results of clinical trials whether or not msg causes describable reportable documentable symptoms should be pretty simple to discover i tend to disagree i think anecdotal evidence provided there is a lot of it and it is fairly consistent will is very important first it points to the necessity of doing a study and second it at least says that the effects are all psychological or possibly allergy in this case as i ve pointed out before pyschological effects are no less real than other effects one person s make believe can easily be another person s reality using psychadelic drugs in a bizarre and twisted example the hallucinations one person experiences on an acid trip cannot be guaranteed to another person on an acid trip there is no clinical evidence that those effects are always going to happen anyhow that was a pretty lame example but hopefully i made my point it s all a matter of perception and as long as someone ingesting msg perceives it as causing bad effects then s he can definitely experience those affects on the other hand it could just be an allergy to the food it s in or something still anecdotal evidence is not worthless it s the stuff that leads to the study being done dan
