When the first sentence of a Wikipedia article has a large ”Citation Needed” flag, it’s a good indication you should probably stop reading. Medical science is

When the first sentence of a Wikipedia article has a large ”Citation Needed” flag, it’s a good indication you should probably stop reading. Medical science is really hard and often unintuitive. There was a great study that came out last week about statins and the nocebo effect [1] which I think is a great example of how hard it is to get good data on clinical symptoms. But this is exactly the calculus that people will try to perform based on their own perspective on the relative risks. There’s certainly plenty of unknowns and cause for uncertainty. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54951648 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54951648