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You are demanding more empiricism while simultaneously abusing existing empiricism. > narcotics that have FDA black warning label that say right on the box tha
by Deestan 14y ago
You are demanding more empiricism while simultaneously abusing existing empiricism.
> narcotics that have FDA black warning label that say right on the box that they increase the risk of suicide
The label says the suicide rate among people who have taken these pills are larger than the population in general. It does in no way mean the pills increase the risk of suicide. Interpret this in the context of these pills being given to people who already have suicidal tendencies, and it's much less scary.
This is empirical knowledge that by law must be on all forms of medication. If you are testing a salt water + lemon juice + cinnamon capsule as treatment for high blood pressure, and one of your test subjects gets hospitalized for severe food poisoning from eating shitty take away during the test, and this causes their liver to give out, the pamphlet describing your lemon cinnamon capsules is going to say "very low risk of acute liver failure".