Worth restating a point from upthread for anyone joining at this page:
It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
LipidDoc_ATL said:I would add the less popular caveat: these trial populations under-represented several groups, older adults and the highest BMI categories among them.
Coming back to something from earlier in the thread, because it keeps being talked past:
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
Reprising the part of this that the last few posts have moved away from:
If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.GutHealth said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on Dr.GutHealth here. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.