Dr.EM_Chicago said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.
nancy_portland said:Agreed, and ALT falling is not the same as fibrosis improving.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Dr.EM_Chicago said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
I read this differently from Dr.EM_Chicago, on substance rather than tone. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.
Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. No action needed from anybody.