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David Epstein: Never Underestimate the Generalist

"World of DaaS"

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The Problems With Blood Pressure Drugs

A lot of screening is based on so called surraget markers, which are testing for a proxy of the thing you actually care about. Let's take blood pressure. A tennel law was shown to be really good at lowering people's blood pressure. But it turned out that it didn't. They just died at the same rates with lower blood pressure numbers. And i think the problems ly deuces thistat saish, ye, the problems are you're picking up of things.

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