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qsera 71 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: In Praise of Observational Evidence

> to detect an effect significantly stronger than most drugs..

What the heck are you smokin? Did paracetamol have a weaker affect on temperature than smoking causing cancer?

estearum 71 days ago [–]

That is correct. Smoking has a stronger effect on cancer rates than paracetamol does on fever (which itself is an extremely strong effect that can be proven in RCTs of just a few dozen people - far stronger than most drugs on the market).

Thank you for demonstrating my point.

qsera 71 days ago | [–]

And thank you for demonstrating mine..

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