This is why I am default skeptical of any non-mainstream medical argument made to me. If someone is feeding me bullshit or bad data I will not be able to tell. If you don’t have the expertise or the patience to actually look at the source data, an argument based on lies or bad data, as SMTM seems to have made, sounds just as convincing as one based on good data. (Especially if you’re trying to sell me something!)
Good reason to apply this with nearly equal intensity to mainstream medical arguments, though. (Applies to a lesser extent to evidence-based places like Cochrane, but sadly still applies.)
This is why I am default skeptical of any non-mainstream medical argument made to me. If someone is feeding me bullshit or bad data I will not be able to tell. If you don’t have the expertise or the patience to actually look at the source data, an argument based on lies or bad data, as SMTM seems to have made, sounds just as convincing as one based on good data. (Especially if you’re trying to sell me something!)
Good reason to apply this with nearly equal intensity to mainstream medical arguments, though. (Applies to a lesser extent to evidence-based places like Cochrane, but sadly still applies.)