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Except, does it bias the outcome at all? If you do a meta study of a thousand different medications that work, you’d discover the single most common ingredients
by GW150914 8y ago
Except, does it bias the outcome at all? If you do a meta study of a thousand different medications that work, you’d discover the single most common ingredients are starch or cellulose. Clearly it’s worth taking either or both to stay healthy! Of course this ignores the fact that they’re just filler, the active ingredients are the tiny fraction of the total recipe that are actually pharmacologically active.
The presence of a trait doesn’t imply that it’s in any way an active ingredient, even a very little active. Post hoc analysis is bullshit.
- scarejunba 8y agoWell if you were entrepreneur-material you would have been able to extrapolate off the limited information ;P
- atomical 8y agoMedications are indicated for disease. Only pseudoscientists take drugs for health.
- GW150914 8y agoStatins? Hypertensive meditations? Anxiolytics? Prophylaxis in general?
- atomical 8y agoAre those not addressing states of disease?
- GW150914 8y agoThey can be used to treat disease, but are often used to prevent disease. Statins in particular are used to prevent cardiovascular disease from developing.
- atomical 8y agoIf someone has high cholesterol don't they already have the beginnings of disease? Are there people taking statins with zero plaque in their arteries?
- eric-hu 8y agoAs far as I know, high cholesterol only correlates with heart attacks and strokes. there are also people who have high cholesterol and will not experience a heart attack in their life.
- atomical 8y agoThose with high cholesterol have plaque in their arteries. That is not normal and I would consider that a state of disease.