Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study...
by JoshuaDavid on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:29PM
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Not OP but
If someone were advocating making policy decisions based on astrological charts, I would read and comment in such threads despite not trusting astrology on a fundamental level.
I personally would go quite as far as to say that purely observational studies have as much predictive value as astrology, but "observational studies are as reliable as astrology" is a better first-order approximation of my opinions than "observational studies are as reliable as large-n randomized controlled trials".
If someone were advocating making policy decisions based on astrological charts, I would read and comment in such threads despite not trusting astrology on a fundamental level.
I personally would go quite as far as to say that purely observational studies have as much predictive value as astrology, but "observational studies are as reliable as astrology" is a better first-order approximation of my opinions than "observational studies are as reliable as large-n randomized controlled trials".