Originally Posted by Hopin49
No medical or pharmaceutical research center is going to invest the time or money to disprove a theory. There’s no money in it.
Au contraire, mon ami - the negative approach is precisely the inductive method used. There is a common belief amongst researchers that you can never prove anything - only disprove it. In terms of scientific research, in fact, if a condition proves true 999 times, then returns false only once, the premise is invalid.
Under the general heading of “Penis Enlargement/Improvement,” all of the various methods must be dispassionately tested (surgery - and the various procedures - and implants and, of course, natural PE). Each method must then be stringently tested; ideally, with a large sampling of test subjects as well as placebo control groups. Before PE can be “scientifcally” rejected, it must be demonstrated to be invalid. Under research conditions, any growth noted must be carefully analyzed, then all the various factors which might account for such growth must be ruled out before any firm conclusions may be drawn.
If growth indeed occurred, it’s not enough to “credit” the growth to jelqing and stretching - other possibilities must be ruled out (including the jelqing and stretching). In the case that all other factors for growth, except jelqing and stretching, were ruled out, they still cannot *determine* that growth was due to natural PE. Only tentative conclusions can be drawn - until it can be proven that jeqling and stretching do not lead to growth.
It’s my belief that even under such stringent methodology, some guys might grow very little or none at all. Therefore, such a vast sampling of test subjects would need to be studied. If the negative approach ruled out all other possibilities for growth, except NPE, then at best a tentative conclusion might be reached that “NPE may result in temporary penis enlargement for some individuals.” That alone would not prove “real growth.” Lengthy follow up studies would have to determine “permanence” before it could actually be called “Natural Penis Enlargement.”
[* This issue of permanence, in fact, is ultimately what cost Dr. Chartham the lawsuit filed against him for mail fraud regarding his PE courses many years ago.]