Originally Posted by SVTCobra
Article says no control group, weak. Not sure how you can test a hypothesis without a control, even the 7th graders at the local science fair competition know that.
Isn't the control group the general population? Granted, there's no group taking a placebo.
I'm not going to read too much into it, but it is somewhat interesting. A group of people who wouldn't normally be given a growth hormone nor diabetes pills take them, and appear to be better off for it. Seems to me that this is where a proper study can take place with a larger group of individuals, along with proper controls.
One thing I didn't see was the time spent on this trial--how is it known that this is not a short term trend that could be easily reversed, either with discontinuation of the pills or even with the continued taken thereof?