Yeah, but everyone knows if you cut a potato in half, rub it on the wart and then bury the potato in the backyard, the wart will go away.
Duct tape no magical cure for warts, study finds

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Duct tape does not work any better than doing nothing to cure warts in schoolchildren, Dutch researchers reported on Monday in a study that contradicts a popular theory about an easy way to get rid of the unattractive lumps.

The study of 103 children aged 4 to 12 showed the duct tape worked only slightly better than using a corn pad, a sticky cushion that does not actually touch the wart and which was considered to be a placebo.

“After 6 weeks, the warts of 8 children (16 percent) in the duct tape group and the warts of 3 children (6 percent) in the placebo group had disappeared,” the researchers wrote in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/11/06/warts.duct.tape.reut/index.html

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