
The Skeptics Guide #906 - Nov 19 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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The Dangers of Statistics
It's not like the pharmaceutical industry doesn't do this too. They hire statisticians to make sure that they give their drug the best chance of having a positive study. The difference is the pharmaceutical industry has the FDA looking over their shoulder and they have to follow specific guidelines. But for natural products, they don't have the same kind of approval process. This is just for marketing. You know what I mean? This is not for FDA approval. It's really easy to lie with statistics because this is the... The p-hacking thing again where it's ... If you could do something which superficially looks legitimate, but if your goal is to show a positive result, you could
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