But it's worth pointing out that (i) the medical profession, who are the appropriate people to be evaluating HCQ, didn't rely on their heuristic but did the tes

But it's worth pointing out that (i) the medical profession, who are the appropriate people to be evaluating HCQ, didn't rely on their heuristic but did the test and (ii) if you as a layman abandon the heuristic that you shouldn't be receptive to the advice of conspiracy theorists and alternative therapists protesting the medical profession because they might be right about something, following that advice isn't largely cost-free unlike the other examples Scott Alexander set up, and is in fact more likely to harm you than the heuristic