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[...] only medical doctors would be able to review/rate. Which IMO is a reasonable and interesting idea worth exploring. This is still an incredibly bad idea,
by saidajigumi 10y ago
[...] only medical doctors would be able to review/rate. Which IMO is a reasonable and interesting idea worth exploring.
This is still an incredibly bad idea, for the entire reason we have medical science. One physician, no matter how principled and rigorous, won't have enough data. This "data" comes by way of raw number of patients, information collected about each of those patients (general and relevant to a specific drug study), how that data was collected (i.e. good experimental methodology).
Worse, even if good data were magically available, random physicians won't have the background in experimental science and statistical methods to analyze that data meaningfully. Even trained research scientists often have problems with this stuff. Add to that the already extant risks of conflict of interest from physicians receiving kickbacks from big pharma... sheesh.
So yeah, Yelp Anecdata FTW! Welcome to the tyranny of the snake-oil salesmen!
Do we really want pharmaceutical medicine, which already has major systemic problems, to degenerate to the level of "audiophile" arguments on web forums?