[leokennis]

I am jumping from a plane but I will not wear a parachute until someone proves to me it will not give me a skin rash!

[mrakve]

If the common narrative was that you should jump from a plane, apparently you would do so without stopping to question it for yourself.

[perl4ever]

"As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute."

https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

Do you want to volunteer for the study?

[cratermoon]

That's great. I expected it to have been published on April 1.

[mrakve]

btw, myocarditis, hemi-paralysis, and stroke-like responses are, imo, a little more serious than a rash... you, know, in case you happened to be looking into it for yourself