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If there's weak evidence for the effectiveness of a drug, then most likely the drug has no effect at all. Let's remember that crap such as homeopathy would rank
by AshamedCaptain 5y ago
If there's weak evidence for the effectiveness of a drug, then most likely the drug has no effect at all. Let's remember that crap such as homeopathy would rank as 3 stars on your proposed system.
Our current research/science publishing system is not well suited to evaluating very small effects. Not that there may any system well suited to that.
- dougmwne 5y agoPrecisely. If I want to create weak evidence for a drug, I can just run a few dozen studies and statistics will take care of the rest. Drugs with real, but very small effects are also not very useful as they aren't going to move the needle much, and certainly not as much as the quite powerful placebo effect.