Haha. You are talking about improving scientific study of an issue. The low carbists want you to talk about the value of self-selected anecdotal evidence. The compulsion to low carb is a strong one.
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No. You seem to be dangerous to patients with that attitude. I want to be treated as a patient on my personal evidence. Just as it is equally stupid to generalise my results to a population of 50,000 people generalising their weak results to me is just as crazy.
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It is. With hazard ratios in the 10s of percents it is easy to play to the bias you talk about. An example of poor epidemiology is this study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30135-X/fulltext … Would you stake your scientific reputation on it's soundness on which to base a personal health decision?
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That is: a) leading question b) weird strawman c) misunderstanding of epi
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