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I agree mostly, but w.r.t. medication, it's not that they have no effect, it's that they seem to function by accident with the most plausible explanation (chemi

by R0b0t1 4y ago

I agree mostly, but w.r.t. medication, it's not that they have no effect, it's that they seem to function by accident with the most plausible explanation (chemical deficiency?) being suspect under closer consideration.

ncmncm 4y ago
No. It is that the med under test could perfectly treat the small number diagnosed who actually have the illness it addresses, and have nil or negative effect on everybody else given the same diagnosis who have an actually different illness. According to the RCT, it just failed. Validity of RCT results is limited absolutely by validity of diagnosis. Bad diagnostics, bad results. That doesn't stop people from running invalid RCTs, so it should stop people from citing invalid RCTs. But it doesn't.