The reality is that pretty much any treatment *can* be tested in an RCT The only exceptions are things that are totally impossible to double-blind (I.e. acupuncture) and even then you can do an RCT it just won't be as well controlledhttps://twitter.com/jd_wilko/status/1099587835714248704 …
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If someone claimed to be able to work actual, Harry-Potter style magic with a wand to cure headaches, we could test that because we can test headaches even if we can't actually test magic
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If someone says "This is impossible to test in an RCT", what they're really saying is either: a) I don't understand RCTs b) I don't think my treatment actually works
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Note: this is NOT the same as saying "I can't do an RCT on this". There are many reasons that RCTs are hard to do, chief among them funding because RCTs are quite expensive
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