Examples: the "autism causes vaccines" 127+ study page that actually is a bunch of non-sequiturs and doesn't contain even one study on autism and vaccines in people #vaccineswork
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The guy who, today, linked to ~30 in vitro/rodent studies on green tea/weightloss to prove that it really DOES work despite there being a number of systematic reviews of RCTs on the subject
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The endless array of people who throw rodent studies on brown fat or kidney function at me when I question whether intermittent fasting is more effective than other dieting interventions
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The point is not that in vitro or in vivo studies are useless. The point is that they aren't useful as evidence ONCE WE'VE ACTUALLY TESTED THE THEORY IN PEOPLE
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If there's been a systematic review that found 10 high-quality RCTs which included 10,000 participants that found no benefit from your intervention, to me that is MUCH stronger evidence than a study in 40 rats
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Right down through point 4. I thought the pet intervention was simply the introduction of a feline into the household... easily confused
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