Why Do People Keep Falling For Things That Don't Work? - Video

There’s one particular mental trap that seems to fool everyone, especially those WITH medical knowledge.

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My video on vaccines and people’s reactions: https://youtu.be/5iABaxRWGxk
My video on bias, which mentions other failed therapies (two parter): https://youtu.be/ooWA4tM_gUs

Kevin Klatt’s post https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb72YXVLCf3/
Andrew Steele’s dissection of ‘Blueprint’ longevity plan https://youtu.be/7rs_JK-pTTQ

Writing: Rohin Francis
Editing: Tanmay Nandanikar and Rohin Francis
Thumbnail design: Simon Buckmaster

0:00 Intro
3:41 The demarcation problem
6:44 Pseudoscience
9:06 Homeopathy and chiropractic
11:20 It's nice to feel nice
13:37 Bioplausibility
16:39 The mechanistic bias
17:06 Hard vs soft; clean vs messy science
20:25 Mechanistic examples: COVID Rx and masks
24:40 Diets
28:12 Vitamin D supplements
36:36 The Big Pharma graveyard
45:33 Most therapies don't work
47:07 Influencers' love of sexy mechanisms
50:25 Closing summary


References:

Convalescent plasma doesn’t work https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00897-7/fulltext
Meta-research: A comprehensive review of randomized clinical trials in three medical journals reveals 396 medical reversals https://elifesciences.org/articles/45183
Most healthcare interventions don’t work https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(22)00100-7/fulltext
COVID experts give Thanksgiving tips https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/21/how-infectious-disease-experts-are-responding-to-covid-nearly-three-years-in/
VITAL study (vitamin D) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2202106?query=featured_home https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2205993
VITAL website https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html
Vitamin D in kids https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2798998
MAST pants don’t work https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10796828/
Nesiritide https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118.005440
REDOX https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1212722
PANTHER IPF https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1212722
OSCILLATE https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1215554

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