Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
Following on from traveltech_sara — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
Dr.AddMedPHL said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
I read this differently from Dr.AddMedPHL, on substance rather than tone. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.AddMedPHL said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.