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© 2018 AFPBeware those medical studies -- most are wrong, researcher warns
By Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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kohakuebisu
This is true. Many actual workings of human body remain unknown.
My late father was prescribed statins as a preventative against heart disease, but had to stop taking them due to very nasty side effects. I did some reading up on them and they just sound like a huge boon to the pharmaceutical industry. Despite being widely prescribed, the reduction in absolute risk achieved through statin use was found to be only 1%. Statistical magic was used to inflate the 1% measured effect to produce a 36% reduction in "relative risk". Doctors would be better off telling people to exercise more or eat better.
Raw Beer
I recommend the following Rogan Podcast, where Gary Taubes describes serious problems with medical studies, with a focus on sugar and salt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ffswUVoxA
gogogo
There is an article for everything... the media never reports on "peer reviewed" articles or studies which would rule out 90% of them
mukashiyokatta
We have known for many years that those "studies" are fraudulent -- conducted by Big Pharma, favorable results kept, unfavorable results thrown away. All for the sake of MAKING MONEY.
Toasted Heretic
LOL
The irony. Right up on the right hand side is the headline:
Nuts may boost male fertility: study
Jonathan Prin
If you can't reproduce a result, then it is a 99% wrong study. Science does not lie.
JonathanJo
Reminds me of this from the movie Sleeper:
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.