It’s lockdown and now no lockdown. Could be anything.
All observational studies are wrong. The stated limitations are fatal flaws. You heard it here first in HN. All medical research is fatally flawed, says user “timr”.
> All observational studies are wrong...You heard it here first in HN.
No, but most of them are wrong, and all of them need to be treated with an incredibly high degree of skepticism. This is critical review 101. When you push on this paper, even lightly, it falls over.
Not all papers are bad, but this one is bad, and while there are a great many well-done studies in the world, the subject of "long covid", to date, has essentially ~none of them.
I knew this would be the conclusion. Again - good luck. You are always right.
If you’re right and everyone else is wrong about hundreds if not thousands of studies, then you should be writing a book, not comments in HN.
We started at “some studies have errors” and we ended in “an entire field of research is wrong”.
You have already decided the field has no valid studies. Even when given dozens of examples you picked one and made up a series of points about one study. You made mistakes, never admitted it, and now are calling into question an entire field of medical research.
It’s lockdown and now no lockdown. Could be anything. All observational studies are wrong. The stated limitations are fatal flaws. You heard it here first in HN. All medical research is fatally flawed, says user “timr”.
Good luck with that.