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by qsera 26 days ago
> We have effective statistical certainty in the results.

Only if you blindly trust the entities that is doing the studies.

Seriously, I am not sure how anyone with a couple of brain cells between their ears can do that.

>Tell me: how do you know the food you eat is safe? How about the water? The air?

I don't. But one don't have a choice. But for other things, one certainly do.

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No, you really don't need to "blindly trust" the entities doing the studies.

I work in clinical trials. I know how they work. You do not.

>I work in clinical trials. I know how they work. You do not.

Ah, that makes perfect sense.

It is hard for a man to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it.

It's even harder when he's completely uncurious about how the world actually works ;)
Being curious does not help much if you are easily satisfied by bullshit answers, like "It works because I said so!"
Imagine thinking that placebo-controlled, double-blinded randomized clinical trials say "it works because I said so."

Surprised you don't fall out of your own shoes in your upside-down world.

I am not distrusting the method. I am distrusting the person that claims to follow it, behind closed doors and comes out with only a result.