re quack quack was re candida yeast bloom fact or fiction in article ravpeinnah gap caltech edu ken isis cns caltech edu ken miller writes so if you have any evidence against the hypothesis for example controlled double blind studies showing that the anti fungals don t do any better than sugar water then let s hear it if you don t then what we have is anecdotal and uncontrolled evidence on one side and abject disbelief on the other i don t have any evidence against water from lourdes curing ms i m sure there is anecdotal evidence that it does do you really think that in the absence of a double blind study i should be indifferent to the hypothesis that water from lourdes cures ms for what it s worth i know of only one double blind study of nystatin for candida hypersensitivity syndrome it was published in the new england journal i think and showed no benefit on systemic symptoms though i think it reduced vaginal yeast infections not surprisingly as i recall the yeast crowd had some major objections to the study though i don t remember what they were david rind rind enterprise bih harvard edu
