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Comment author: johnswentworth 12 May 2013 08:19:39AM 0 points [-]

Ah, but the cool thing is that you don't need an experimental treatment. We're talking bog-standard antibiotics, nothing unusual. The only unusual thing is what you'd be trying to do with those antibiotics.

And unlike the usual vaguely promising substances, the effect sizes were huge in both experiments. You don't get a 46% drop in adipose fat from random noise.