STEP 1-5 trials comprehensive summary — my results so far

dave_SLC said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.

Worth separating that from the trial evidence, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

dave_SLC said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.

dave_SLC said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

That reframing is the part I needed. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.

PeptideChemSF said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.