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by dibujante 1517 days ago
This is true, although I would prefer to still test everyone for plausibly important things to feed data analysts who might eventually discover something useful.
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I'd love for that to be true, but there's a good chance that in doing broad tests you are incurring costs (both to patient health and cost [whether paid by patient, gov, or insurance company]) without getting anything beyond noisy data without useful signal
That's a lot of blood draws to ask of people, for something that doesn't even have a hypothesis.

There are studies like the UK biobank that are trying to collect longitudinal information about a huge number of people, but they're volunteers.