I think the fact that there are some pearls in alternative medicine but there no efficient way to find them is a more fundamental problem that is it’s own cause worth looking at.
Our at LessWrong I wrote proposed Prediction-based Medicine. It would be possible to create a startup that puts Prediction-based Medicine to work and afterwards it would be possible for patients to go to alternative medicine providers who can reliably predict the treatment success they have for the patients.
The startup would need a good team and some funding but Musk-level funding wouldn’t be required to put the idea effectively to work.
After different forms of resting https://curetogether.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ig/treatment-effectiveness-vs-popularity Low-Dose Naltrexone seems to be the treatment that was reported as most beneficial on CureTogether for CFS. Fortunately there’s an ongoing clinical trial to test this treatment.
I think the fact that there are some pearls in alternative medicine but there no efficient way to find them is a more fundamental problem that is it’s own cause worth looking at. Our at LessWrong I wrote proposed Prediction-based Medicine. It would be possible to create a startup that puts Prediction-based Medicine to work and afterwards it would be possible for patients to go to alternative medicine providers who can reliably predict the treatment success they have for the patients.
The startup would need a good team and some funding but Musk-level funding wouldn’t be required to put the idea effectively to work.
The first link seems to be dead by now, the second one moved. Here are the most recent (archived) versions that I could find:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171230194806/http://curetogether.com/Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome/ig/treatment-effectiveness-vs-popularity
https://sites.uab.edu/younger/2017/02/23/ldn-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-clinical-trial/
If I understand it correctly, then the study you mention is scheduled to end in August 2022, this year: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02965768 (backup)
It contains only 30 participants, but still better than nothing.