Threw up at work today - do I tell my boss why? — need advice

One thing that is still open after Dr.EndoIndy’s answer:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

PharmacoVig_BOS said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.

PharmacoVig_BOS said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

PharmacoVig_BOS said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.