?"If nothing else of use results from the Zamboni fad, which has cost patients, charities and governments at least $one billion, we should have learned a number of lessons:

The absolute necessity for careful blinding of clinical trials before a paper on them is accepted by any medical journal.

The necessity for regulation of surgical procedures in the same way as drugs are regulated.

The necessity for ethical doctors to increase their presence in the internet social media to counteract patient hysteria and the venality of some members of their profession.

Before media reporters are allowed to report on medical and scientific topics must take a course in assessment of the validity of publications in journals.

In this internet age, high school science education, in addition to the standard curricula, needs to teach skills in the assessment of the validity of data and conclusions drawn from them, using the Zamboni fad as a classic example of what not to do."

Jennifer Alexander