If a treatment only has benefits in terribly done observational trials, and no benefit in RCTs, it probably doesn't work
That is the ENTIRE POINT of doing clinical trials
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Is "real-world evidence" the epidemiological equivalent of a special pleading?
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We could spend literally our entire days and nights responding to people on Twitter about the latest misrepresented study/data/mass delusion, and I am profoundly skeptical any hearts and minds could be changed.
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Your skepticism is at least partially unwarranted.
@GidMK has changed my opinion on the weight of the evidence.
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My contribution to this drama is a statistical significance visualizer. I spent a week or two trying to understand the drama of IVM and its proponents. https://lo.gic.li/lgc
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Using good method, « real evidence data » (i don’t like this term) can bring very useful info when there is not. However, you should use often complicated methods and think about so many potential biases
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How long can the Alphabet Agencies and Ivory Towers fight the massive & rising real world data of IVM rapidly stopping &/or preventing COVID surges? It's gonna be a looong walk back from that position man - I would be starting that $%&! walk now (1/5)