Stories like today’s about naproxen causing “a 50 percent greater risk of heart attacks and stroke than placebo” can be meaningless if they don’t provide the ABSOLUTE risk. The 50% figure is the relative risk — naproxen’s rate relative to placebo. But we’re not told the ABSOLUTE rate: how many people actually had heart attacks […]
12/6/2004See my review article in this week’s British Medical Journal. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7478/1352
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On #misinformation: @garyschwitzer interviewed by @BarbaraFicarra: "give people the tools to improve their own analytical skills, their own ability to weigh the veracity of claims, their own pathways for finding accurate, balanced and complete information" https://healthin30.com/2020/11/is-it-possible-to-debunk-pandemic-misinformation/
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Is it Possible to Debunk Pandemic Misinformation? - @Healthin30 https://healthin30.com/2020/11/is-it-possible-to-debunk-pandemic-misinformation/ Q&A with @garyschwitzer
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Wow - a terrific effort. Congratulations. https://twitter.com/gijn/status/1329719765154279426
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