Crypto for meds feels very dystopian but here we are — anyone have experience?

SarahChen_PharmD said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.

pete_nash said:

Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

SarahChen_PharmD said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.

Moderator note: a couple of off-topic posts removed. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.