The Magic Tonsillectomy or Armstrong's Voodoo Science?

[Jim Hargrove]

You would have a point, Jim, if I had said in EVERY SINGLE CASE they would grow back under the conditions I outlined. But I didn't say that, and the fact remains that it WAS more likely to happen back then than now. That is not my opinion. I posted the source. If you can refute the source, please do. A personal anecdote is hardly suffice, and would make DVP blush if attempting to get it past anyone.

OK, fine. From Australian Doctor (my emphasis):

The surgical removal of tonsils is often seen as a last resort for patients suffering recurrent or severe bouts of tonsillitis. For most, a tonsillectomy is the answer to the problem. But in rare cases, regrowth and reinfection of the tonsil tissue can occur.

If this were the only evidence, perhaps we could accept it as a rare case. But there is also the vanishing mastoidectomy scar and the downright magically disappearing gunshot wound. This is becoming rare to a rather miraculous degree.