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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MAGA lunatics need to get out of medicine and healthcare and start listening to the people who actually study medicine.[/quote]
They’re all experts because “they did their own research”.[/quote]

This is such a lazy canard. A central tenet of our healthcare system is that patients should be given informed consent before a treatment. That usually means a conversation with a doctor. People like you consider that unremarkable yet guffaw at the notion that [b]a motivated layman could ever research their way to a better understanding of a medical question[/b]. [/quote]

I believe wholeheartedly in the importance and value of informed consent. However, I've yet to have a layman be able to explain to me their exclusion criteria for the research studies they assessed.

I'm sure it could happen. The fact that it has not in some 30 years of practice does somewhat shake my faith in the quality of "doing your own research."[/quote]

Thanks for responding. I assume you’re a pediatrician and are referring to a scenario where a parent cites a study to you saying a vaccine is associated with a scary thing?

If that’s right, I guess I’m curious what you think about the following somewhat different scenario: a parent does research and concludes that the safety data is less robust than she assumed and, on that basis, declines a vaccine. In other words, the parent doesn’t purport to make an affirmative scientific proposition (“this study shows X is true”) but, instead, makes a negative proposition (“your study doesn’t resolve my concerns about Y”). I agree with you that the former will often beyond the skill set of most laymen, but the latter is not—it doesn’t take an MD to look up the duration of a study listed on a product label or to find out what its control group is.

Thanks for engaging btw. [/quote]

Of course.

There are always two key questions when assessing research, often forgotten: how was your question phrased, and what is the comparison group.

[quote]and concludes that the safety data is less robust than she assumed [/quote]

The hidden comparison group here is other decisions you make based on safety data. So what counts as "robust" for you?[/quote]

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