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Jane's avatar

I love this substack. I have had all these thoughts over the past two years but could not articulate them as well. I have shared your posts with brainwashed people but alas, to no avail. Maybe because they’re midway sophists. They are also very pretentious, which seems to go hand in hand.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

"A problem with anecdotes is that they are often just a few data points, and they are not the result of controlled experiments. This causes some people to discount them altogether, and relatedly, claim that RCTs (randomized controlled trials) are the “gold standard of evidence."

Funny thing is the same deep pocket corps who insist only RCT evidence has value also pay vast numbers of social media influencers because most ordinary individuals tend to put more weight on anecdotes related by a trusted individual.

Every playground has more useful information from other parents than official sources. For more than a decade doctors were surgically implanting tubes in the ears of kids with chronic ear infections and continued long after parents knew cutting dairy in the diets solved the problem.

Of course there are no sponsors for trials that make folks healthier w dietary balance.

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