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> study on the consequences for their own patients of either having received a given vaccination decades previous or not, no? No! If you think its possible to
by majkinetor 5y ago
> study on the consequences for their own patients of either having received a given vaccination decades previous or not, no?
No! If you think its possible to pin point exactly what is the source of the problem with decade of various stressors piling up on anybody you should think again. It basically has infinite confounding variables.
> those few poisoned bottles of aspirin did anything to increase the non-contingent risk profile of taking aspirin.
Please educate more about this - do you know that ibuprofen is result of long time search to replace aspirin due to its toxicity (such as stomach bleeding that you will get sooner or later).
Its insane that people outsource medicine. One should strive to know as much as possible about it, with focus on prevention.
- derefr 5y ago> It basically has infinite confounding variables. Yes, but: Law of Large Numbers. The great thing about retrospective data-collection studies is that you can potentially get hundreds of thousands of histories as datapoints. With those numbers, basically every confounder washes away, other than the selection effect of "what kind of person frequents this hospital rather than some other hospital." And you can get rid of that confounder, too, if you meta-analyze studies done in hospitals in very different areas.