Something important - the NUMBER of studies supporting a position is completely meaningless if the QUALITY of those studies is low
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49 bad studies are not as useful, from an evidence point of view, as 1 good one. You can collate 100s of pieces of shoddy, poorly-done research and still have no idea if something is true
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For example, there have been literally hundreds of studies on hydroxychloroquine. Most of them are woeful, some are decent, and a few are really good The really good ones are pretty much the driving force behind decision-making
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God no, there are so many bad studies that agree with me. Half of my time is spent debunking things that I wish were true, it's exhausting
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