The relative advantage of LessWrong is that it is free, and contains many smart people with variable knowledge bases. There is no reason to believe that it will always (or often) be better than your doctor, but there very little cost to asking and the potential gain outweighs the minimal cost.
There is no reason to believe that it will always (or often) be better than your doctor
Scott Alexander wrote a long post about how his clinic fails to stock Melatonin because there’s no drug reps encouraging them to stock any Melatonin.
If you ask most doctors for Vitamin D3 supplementation I don’t think they give the correct answer of 2000+ UI per day taken in the morning.
People on LW might be both better at reading studies and evaluating the statistics and have spend more time researching a particular issue than the average doctor.
The relative advantage of LessWrong is that it is free, and contains many smart people with variable knowledge bases. There is no reason to believe that it will always (or often) be better than your doctor, but there very little cost to asking and the potential gain outweighs the minimal cost.
Scott Alexander wrote a long post about how his clinic fails to stock Melatonin because there’s no drug reps encouraging them to stock any Melatonin.
If you ask most doctors for Vitamin D3 supplementation I don’t think they give the correct answer of 2000+ UI per day taken in the morning.
People on LW might be both better at reading studies and evaluating the statistics and have spend more time researching a particular issue than the average doctor.