lolwut?
I was pretty excited when I came across this, people were discussing it.. unfortunately, stuff that works and stuff that doesn't work get put to the wayside and forgotten in history all the time.
Take for example, in the 90's (not too long ago at all) it was a BIG deal to teach moms about letting a newborn sleep by itself without stuffed animals and on its back. Reduced SIDS (despite us not knowing the exact cause of it) by a dramatic number. Now-a-days, only 20-30 years later, none of the new moms I know are ever told about it. Hell, they aren't even being told about Honey anymore, which is super dangerous for babies and yet I caught my sister trying to feed it to her own son simply because no one ever told her and all the all-natural-organic people go bananas about how gorgeous and harmless honey is. It was amazing how people just.. forget shit. Honey IS safe and harmless--for some people. For babies? Hello potential botulism poisoning.
There was an interesting thing I heard about the origin of the term "Limeys" and basically it came down to the fact lemons and limes SEEMED similar, and limes were cheaper, so they were given to sailors.. and scurvy came back because lemons have a fuck-ton more Vitamin C than limes do.. Basically the sailors should have been called Lemonys.. but that convenient cure for scurvy was lost to time because of that. No one realized Lemons and Vitamin C and all that shit behind it because limes were thought to be similar and limes didn't help--and they were what was popular at the time.
Trying to figure out what's horseshit and what really worked is a cool, thankless job to research and test.. and unfortunately, people believe what they want to believe. So people who are on the all-natural-medieval-people-were-magically-smart-somehow bandwagon get validation on this particular situation (but conveniently ignore the whole soak-in-mud-and-poop-to-cure-stuff-like-measles remedies) and run with it to validate things that have nothing to do with this pretty cool potential finding.. and really, it just all holds back progress.
And this isn't even mentioning people hate and don't trust studies unless they're already saying something they want the study to say.