This simple fact - regression to the mean, attribution error - is responsible for a VAST amount of what is called "the placebo effect", and is not an actual positive effect (spiritual/psychological/behavioral/whatever) of any kind
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That is the whole reason clinical trials are so expensive, so tightly regulated and so important And why in the whole world of grifters and con artists the field of snake-oil medicine is the most consistently lucrative
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Anyway you can look at the comments and see the people shrieking that skepticism about hydroxychloroquine is a Democrat plot to hurt Trump and get some sense of how the world got to the shitty place it's at now
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The kind of shit people are saying is literally insane "NO TIME FOR TESTS! IT'S AN EMERGENCY! IF THERE'S ANY CHANCE IT MIGHT WORK START GIVING IT OUT NOW" *Any* chance? Based on what, rumors and speculation? You can start a rumor about anything
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I could start a rumor right now that soaking your face in kerosene burns off the virus from your respiratory passages, and it MIGHT be true, so hey why not just go fucking nuts and start doing that too
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I have been trying to explain this to my husband who insists "the drug works" because it's being given to patients ....
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> Even in the highest risk groups, most (95%+) coronavirus patients do recover in the end Just reading this, and I trust its right, made me feel a lot better. Tonight my anxiety is running wild and I’m about to fall apart in tears because I’m just so damned panicked.
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And you also don't get that many anecdotes from people who use it and die
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It called "survivor bias".
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