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Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by spider-mario on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:38AM (#30021732)
To be clear, the problem here is in equating “evidence” with randomized controlled trials. We have plenty of evidence that parachutes work, just not in the form of RCTs.

David Gorski of sciencebasedmedicine.org calls it “methodolatry”:

https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1484220420295376900

https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1479900075602194445

https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1483268592674217986

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