Texas children treated for Vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads(www.texasstandard.org)
19 pointsby croesa day ago2 comments
  • duxupa day ago
    I wish this was all just individual "well they're stupid that's on them" but all this stuff ends up hitting kids and other people ...
    • quantifieda day ago
      It's more at a group level than an individual level. At least we're not yet pushing the power of prayer.
      • watwuta day ago
        That might have been better. Vitamin A helps only if you severely lack it and is actively harming them in amounts they take it.

        Prayer would just do nothing.

        • LinuxBendera day ago
          Prayer would just do nothing.

          That might be a little harsh. I would at least compare it to a placebo. Chants and prayers can help keep ones hand in the box for the Reverend Mother. [1]

          [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RooSqqn1FjA [video][fear is the mind killer]

          • mbfg14 hours ago
            i thought i remembered studies where people who know they are being prayed for have worse outcomes than those that don't. The guess being some kind of performance anxiety. Couldn't track down the details, so perhaps just my own misrememberance.
            • SapporoChris12 hours ago
              https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/ Conclusions: Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications.

              However, in my search I also found studies that showed prayer to be effective.

              • quantified6 hours ago
                Replication is important. Statistically, effects can be enormously correlated in one study, yet have no correlation in many other studies.
          • SapporoChrisa day ago
            An factual anecdote isn't worth much. A fictional anecdote regardless of how popular it is, is even less valuable.
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