Does not apply to geneticists and good surgeons in good surgical units. Does apply to many EAs.
What makes you think that good surgeons are good at statistics? I would assume surgeons selects for hands-on-skills. Besides dentists, surgeons are also one of the groups between the medical establishment that care the least about evidence based medicine and practice a lot of treatments where they think placebo-blinded trials aren’t really feasible.
Clinical trials of broad spectrum vitamins often find that those don’t provide benefits to the broad populations. If we grant that some vitamins do provide benefits, that makes the hypothesis that others in the broad spectrum vitamins have negative side effects quite plausible.
There were times I was getting diarrhea from vitamin effervescent tablets and understanding this made me cut back on them.
Physiotherapy comes in a lot of different forms but plenty of those have side effects. Schroth (which is an evidence-based treatment I got for scoliosis) for example has the idea that muscle tonus should be raised to press the spine into shape which has the side effect of making relaxation with low muscle tonus a lot harder.
Official numbers for the polio vaccine suggest mild side effects in 10-20% of the people that take it for the inactivated polio vaccine we take in developed countries. Risk-benefit calculations suggest that the vaccine is worth it, but pretending that it doesn’t have side effects is not helpful.
When asked about side effects of CBT ChatGPT says “Meta-analyses and systematic reviews have documented these “adverse effects” in a non-trivial portion of patients—anywhere between 5–20% depending on the study design. They’re usually temporary, but they matter because they shape whether therapy feels supportive or overwhelming.” Generally, a lot of therapy outcomes also depend a lot on the therapist. Depending on the issues that your particular therapist has, you might get related side effects.
Abscess treatment comes in multiple forms. Antibiotics have well known side effects of messing up a lot of other bacteria with whom we live in symbiosis. Cutting comes with scarring risk.
With tooth filling opinions of different dentists about which teeth should get them vary widely. Doing tooth filling quite obviously inhibits the normal healing processes of the tooth and plenty of times tooth fillings break after some time.
Conversely, a medical specialist can be curious about home environment, social life, etc.
A person who bills by the hour (which many alternative medicine practitioners do) has a lot more room to pursue their curiosity in situations like that, then the models with which doctors are usually paid.
What makes you think that good surgeons are good at statistics? I would assume surgeons selects for hands-on-skills. Besides dentists, surgeons are also one of the groups between the medical establishment that care the least about evidence based medicine and practice a lot of treatments where they think placebo-blinded trials aren’t really feasible.
Clinical trials of broad spectrum vitamins often find that those don’t provide benefits to the broad populations. If we grant that some vitamins do provide benefits, that makes the hypothesis that others in the broad spectrum vitamins have negative side effects quite plausible.
There were times I was getting diarrhea from vitamin effervescent tablets and understanding this made me cut back on them.
Physiotherapy comes in a lot of different forms but plenty of those have side effects. Schroth (which is an evidence-based treatment I got for scoliosis) for example has the idea that muscle tonus should be raised to press the spine into shape which has the side effect of making relaxation with low muscle tonus a lot harder.
Official numbers for the polio vaccine suggest mild side effects in 10-20% of the people that take it for the inactivated polio vaccine we take in developed countries. Risk-benefit calculations suggest that the vaccine is worth it, but pretending that it doesn’t have side effects is not helpful.
When asked about side effects of CBT ChatGPT says “Meta-analyses and systematic reviews have documented these “adverse effects” in a non-trivial portion of patients—anywhere between 5–20% depending on the study design. They’re usually temporary, but they matter because they shape whether therapy feels supportive or overwhelming.” Generally, a lot of therapy outcomes also depend a lot on the therapist. Depending on the issues that your particular therapist has, you might get related side effects.
Abscess treatment comes in multiple forms. Antibiotics have well known side effects of messing up a lot of other bacteria with whom we live in symbiosis. Cutting comes with scarring risk.
With tooth filling opinions of different dentists about which teeth should get them vary widely. Doing tooth filling quite obviously inhibits the normal healing processes of the tooth and plenty of times tooth fillings break after some time.
A person who bills by the hour (which many alternative medicine practitioners do) has a lot more room to pursue their curiosity in situations like that, then the models with which doctors are usually paid.