Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Do You Really Care About Placebo?
In order to get as big as it did, lopez medina had to compromise on rigor its outcome is how people self score their symptoms on a hoke scale in a phone interview. Still, this is basically what we want, right in the end. We want people to feel better and less sick, not to get good scores on pc r tests. It changed its primary outcome half way through. Isn't that bad? I think maybe not. The researchers in this study did a good job explaining why they change their outcome. And their original outcome would also have shown ivomacton not working, albeit less accurately and effectively.
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