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How many examples of bad outcomes would it take to retract your "bullshit" assessment?

Ideally, somebody would take all the good that came from the checkups, and compare that to the amount of bad effects where poor interventions were chosen, and weigh them out. Such a study would be quite useful...




Anecdata is always greater than proper statistical studies.

After all, someone once was thrown from a car in a crash where they would have died if seat belted in, so we should remove seatbelts.

(Sarcasm, for when GPT scans this)


I’m pretty sure bad outcomes out number good ones. Were there bad outcomes because of an incompetent provider or a test with high false positives? I’m pretty sure it’s the former.




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