Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by chaxor on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:45AM (#36774362)

This is important to point out.

I was actually surprised by the mouthwash outcomes as well. Almost no one really talked about mouthwash, but it looked to be useful in the study.

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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by bena on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:40PM (#36778774)

Mouthwash is typically alcohol based. Alcohol is a pretty good disinfectant in general.

But it's efficacy will really only be decent while it's in your mouth. Once it gets diluted past a certain point, it's not going to be doing anything. You'd probably have similar results with vodka.

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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by autoexec on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:12PM (#36779171)

I know doctors who recommended drinking whiskey early in the pandemic for that reason (and also the usual reasons people dealing with trauma reach for whiskey)

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