By the way, the double blind experiment suggested in the original article sounds actually fun and leading to good science learning, regardless of the writing part.

All you can do is be scrupulous, randomize properly, and (if possible) carry out blind or double blind experiments (see What are 'blind' and 'double blind trials'?

Correct scientific technique emphasizes careful recording of observations, separating experimental observations from the conclusions drawn from them, and techniques such as blind or double blind experiments, to minimize observational bias.

They conducted a double blind test and administered the combination treatment or placebo to adults for 28 days.

Well-controlled scientific evaluation of iridology has shown entirely negative results, with all rigorous double blind tests failing to find any statistical significance to its claims.

Ten GT200 units were used in double blind tests to detect 20 grams of C4 explosive concealed in one of four identical plastic boxes.

They describe that in a double blind test they conducted, 2000 people in Tokyo could increase the aesthetic appeal of water stored in a room in California solely through thought.

While the effects of the high dose samples were statistically significant in a double blind test, the test subjects themselves were unable to reliably identify which samples were the ones containing thujone.

The unicentric, randomized, parallel and double blind test carried out in the Cayetano Heredia University in post-menopausal women showed reduction in cholesterol levels with a dosage of 1800 mg of micro-pulverized caigua daily.

This is done as a double blind test, as neither the healthcare professional nor the patient know if they are receiving the drug under test or a placebo, and don't find out which substance was administered until after the experiment is concluded.

Kai-Thomas Roth, secretary of the British Violin Making Association, said that double blind tests, where neither experimenter nor musician knows which violin is played, had already shown people cannot distinguish a modern violin from a priceless work of art.

When the DTS audio track is encoded at its highest legal bitrate (1509.75 kbit/s), technical experts rank DTS as perceptually transparent for most audio program material (i.e., indistinguishable to the uncoded source in a double blind test).

However many of the ingredients have been traditionally used by a number of unrelated Indian tribes, in Chinese medicine and in western medicine, which gives credence to at least some relief being actively given even if double blind tests have not been done to confirm their usefulness.

In September 2007 the Audio Engineering Society published the results of a year-long trial, in which a range of subjects including professional recording engineers were asked to discern the difference between SACD and compact disc audio (44.1 kHz/16 bit) under double blind test conditions.

Such a design is called a double blind trial.

Results of a prospective placebo controlled double blind trial.

An eight-week double blind trial involved 20 obese patients.

There are two levels of the treatment, drug, and placebo, administered to male and female patients in a double blind trial.

Childhood obesity treatment: double blinded trial on dietary fibres (glucomannan) versus placebo.

A double blind trial.

Measurements were carried out after the intake of 19.8 g psyllium or placebo in a randomised, crossover, double blind trial.

Acetylcysteine is being tested in a double blind trial in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

All you can do is be scrupulous, randomize properly, and (if possible) carry out blind or double blind experiments (see What are 'blind' and 'double blind trials'?

Double blind trial of nicotinamide in recent-onset IDDM (the IMDIAB III study).

Randomised double blind trial reviews report evidence of its effectiveness that is weak, but stronger for acute pain than chronic pain, and that effectiveness may be due entirely to counter-irritation.

This contrasts with single blind and double blind experimental designs, where participants are not aware of what treatment they are receiving (researchers are also unaware in a double blind trial).

Thirty five adult patients with precirrhotic primary sclerosing cholangitis were randomly allocated to receive for at least one year with low dose (4.1 mg/kg/day) cyclosporin or placebo in a double blind trial.

If neither observers nor subjects know which subjects are receiving X and which are controls (a double blind trial see Section 16.5), the interaction effect discussed in Section 15.2.8 will be removed.

They were then immediately entered into a single centre double blind trial in which they were randomised to receive either oral cisapride 10 mg twice daily or an identical placebo tablet for up to 55 weeks.

Mur E, Hartig F, Eibl G, Schirmer M. Randomized double blind trial of an extract from the pentacyclic alkaloid-chemotype of uncaria tomentosa for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

In 1999 a team of researchers lead by the Harvard psychiatrist Andrew Stoll published a preliminary placebo-controlled double blind trial which found Omega 3 fatty acids "improved the short-term course of illness" of bipolar disorder.

The APPROVe (Adenomatous Poly Prevention on Vioxx) study was a multicentre, randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind trial aimed to assess the effect of three-year treatment with rofecoxib on recurrence of neoplastic polyps in individuals with a history of colorectal adenomas.

Two of the three studies of very low birthweight babies also showed significant reductions in the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and duration of ventilator requirements.These were both double blinded trials with the control group receiving placebo injections; hence reductions in ventilator requirements cannot be explained by the investigator's knowledge of treatment.