On the other hand, when looking at alternative studies, there is no confidence interval high enough that will convince the FDA to approve an alternative treatment. As I show in my eBook, applying statistics to the results of one alternative doctor yielded a confidence interval equivalent to more than a thousand standard deviations (three standard deviations yields a commonly accepted confidence interval in science, using more than three standard deviations is too high for most studies). But more than one thousand deviations is not enough evidence for orthodox medicine.