This is a really bad take. Medical studies are obnoxiously hard to interpret for lay people, even lay people with a really strong stats or science background. https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1247134729666789377">https://twitter.com/LisPower1...

*Most* medical papers are not double-blinded trials with outcomes designed for patients and practitioners to change their ways immediately, and are several steps before those trials. And if you& #39;re not careful, those papers can be enormously misleading, or even dangerous to follow

Perhaps the easiest way to drive this home is to explain by way of "proving" an obviously bad result using medical papers, and show how if you& #39;re cherry-picking papers and not really being careful to look for biasing errors, you can end up with extremely dodgy medical advice.

So here goes. Here& #39;s a magic snakeoil cure for COVID. Proven by science*! Makes you healthy**! Widely and cheaply available, even in the US***! Can even be taken preventatively****!

So here& #39;s our new wondercure for CV:

Smoking

* isn& #39;t
** does not
*** i guess
**** don& #39;t tho

First things first. Literal mountains of evidence this is obviously unhealthy, and a ton of evidence this will make CV much worse. So don& #39;t actually. But this thread is not here to give you good medical advice. It& #39;s to cherry-pick papers to shill for a miracle snakeoil wondercure