hyporational comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 20 February 2014 03:16:32PM *  1 point [-]

There's a risk of those side effects. That doesn't mean they're caused reliably enough for you to make the conclusion he definitely had help. Lists of side effects don't mean much without probabilities.

If they're caused reliably and you can provide the data I'm interested.

Comment author: chaosmage 20 February 2014 04:08:20PM 0 points [-]

I don't have probabilities: Appetite loss does not (usually) require intervention, so it is not considered an adverse drug reaction and will generally not need to be listed.

But it is reasonable the fairly mild effect of appetite loss will occur more often the serious gastrointestinal problems that the first link describes as the main group of adverse drug reactions of this group of substances.