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2026-06-18 07:51 UTC
@riley@toot.cat @Jumpmed@mastodon.social @poleguy@mastodon.social @jeneralist@mstdn.science There was a male influencer here in Norway with a following among young men who claimed recently that there had not been proper research into the effectiveness of chemotherapy because of the lack of use of control groups in research projects.
That is control groups that do not get treatment.
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@jeneralist@mstdn.science 2026-06-18 10:30
@the_wub@mastodon.social @riley@toot.cat @Jumpmed@mastodon.social @poleguy@mastodon.social Back in 2003, the British Medical Journal published a tongue-in-cheek article in its end of year issue, pointing out that we couldn't evaluate how well parachutes worked because we didn't have a study that used placebo parachutes for people jumping out of planes: https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459