The first example the author gave with painkillers is inherently bad. Sure, Aleve is the most powerful. But it also has the most side effects, including ulcers

The first example the author gave with painkillers is inherently bad. Sure, Aleve is the most powerful. But it also has the most side effects, including ulcers if used for too long. There's a lot of nuanced information when it comes to drugs. If you want to go on pain killers like Aleve for long term, you probably need to take acid blockers as well, like Nexium. So where does that fall into the analysis? Unfortunately a lot of stuff requires medical doctors that have experience. I just went through a severe health emergency, where I was taking one antibiotic and needed to be changed to another. I needed blood tests and constant supervision for the doctor to make this decision. Psychiatry, which is what I guess the author targeted, is likely even less reliable. My friend is a pharmacist and was on anti-anxiety medication for a year, but decided to try another one, because of the effects on her were affecting her and now she's doing much better. This requires working with a psychiatrist for a year. I think there's value in surfacing all this information but to expect people to rush into paying for it is naive. It's a nice-to-have-tool that might be useful like a Google-type research tool but nothing someone would want to pay $5/month for since the actual benefit over a psychiatrist just going off experience is completely unknown. There no inherent home run here.