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<blockquote data-quote="AMBrennan" data-source="post: 344077" data-attributes="member: 37697"><p>Would you do your own pluming? No? Then how come you assume that everything doctors learn in medical school and all that time medical and statical experts put into analysing the data is completely worthless?</p><p></p><p>To answer your question: Because you do not understand what risk means. Lowering HbA1c has been shown to reduce the risk of complications which means that fewer people in the experimental low HbA1c group suffered from complications compared to the control group.</p><p></p><p>This is, i suppose, an inverted perfect solution fallacy: Because the complications are not certain, any intervention that reduces the risk isn't worth doing. </p><p></p><p>Whilst we are at it, every time you see a story like <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2253271/Hayley-Mills-reveals-beat-breast-cancer-quitting-chemotherapy.html" target="_blank">"Patient makes miracle discovery after stopping conventional treatment and trying alternative medicine"</a>, ask yourself how many deaths following people rejecting effective conventional treatment go unreported because they wouldn't make a good story?</p><p>Unless you go out of your way to collect all the data, you never hear about the unlucky ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AMBrennan, post: 344077, member: 37697"] Would you do your own pluming? No? Then how come you assume that everything doctors learn in medical school and all that time medical and statical experts put into analysing the data is completely worthless? To answer your question: Because you do not understand what risk means. Lowering HbA1c has been shown to reduce the risk of complications which means that fewer people in the experimental low HbA1c group suffered from complications compared to the control group. This is, i suppose, an inverted perfect solution fallacy: Because the complications are not certain, any intervention that reduces the risk isn't worth doing. Whilst we are at it, every time you see a story like [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2253271/Hayley-Mills-reveals-beat-breast-cancer-quitting-chemotherapy.html]"Patient makes miracle discovery after stopping conventional treatment and trying alternative medicine"[/url], ask yourself how many deaths following people rejecting effective conventional treatment go unreported because they wouldn't make a good story? Unless you go out of your way to collect all the data, you never hear about the unlucky ones. [/QUOTE]
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