unlikely to ever get published as they goofed big time with their experimental design: they forgot a control group.
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Historically, when this argument is used it is often just a matter of years until someone figures out that the treatment isn't better than a placebo. E.g. arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis. Took years to convince people that sham (placebo) surgery is a necessary instrument.
(..and even then you sometimes have to wait for a generation change in doctors! Moseley et al published in 2002. My granny got arthroscopic knee surgery for osteoarthritis two years ago. 
Doc probably is performing the OP since decades, thinks he knows what works.)
