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by bunderbunder 262 days ago
It's gently reminding medical researchers not to forget about participation bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_bias).

Another favorite of mine along these lines is "Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training". (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3001541/) This one might actually be quite pertinent in this case, because the FDA's decision appears to rely heavily on exactly the kind of reasoning that this article satirizes.