alexflint comments on Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Liron 19 February 2010 08:11AM

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Comment author: alexflint 23 February 2010 12:22:21PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps findings on PatientsLikeMe will trigger mainstream clinical trials to investigate treatments that may otherwise have gone unnoticed. Ultimately, though, this isn't a very good options and it'd certainly be desirable for this kind of data to be an acceptable basis for medical decisions.