> Do you prefer medical interventions that never work?
Are there medical interventions that never work - aside from bad faith hypotheticals? Even placebo works pretty often.
The article under discussion is all about teasing apart confusing and conflicting data in medical studies. The comment I replied to asks why they have been directed to do something useless.
>> are there other paths to those same success stories.
> Yes, in the US other options include high sensitivity FOBT, FIT, sDNA-FIT and CT colonography.
Statistically, yes - but individual humans don't really think in statistics, we think in stories. My buddy won big at the casino, maybe I will too. I'm sure my dear fellows on this website will never be so stupid as to be motivated by a story about winning at a casino, but it is very EXPENSIVE to apply this level of rational rigor to every part of your life.
Are there medical interventions that never work - aside from bad faith hypotheticals? Even placebo works pretty often.
The article under discussion is all about teasing apart confusing and conflicting data in medical studies. The comment I replied to asks why they have been directed to do something useless.
>> are there other paths to those same success stories.
> Yes, in the US other options include high sensitivity FOBT, FIT, sDNA-FIT and CT colonography.
Statistically, yes - but individual humans don't really think in statistics, we think in stories. My buddy won big at the casino, maybe I will too. I'm sure my dear fellows on this website will never be so stupid as to be motivated by a story about winning at a casino, but it is very EXPENSIVE to apply this level of rational rigor to every part of your life.