It's everywhere.

It's everywhere. I get why there are people who think all the positives, but I worry that it will be just another iteration of forgetting to think about ethics and implications of bad actors and even just random garbage.

Frex, one of the things that drives people nuts in very large studies is that you can tell if there's an error when you get to certain analysis stages, but then you have to comb through all the data entry by hand to find the one cell on the one spreadsheet that was entered wrongly. Then you have to go through all the procedures to document and correct and reanalyze. And that's for the entry errors you can easily catch.

And there are always assumptions baked into any program, never mind any study. These things can affect outcomes. We like to pretend they aren't there and everything magically becomes objective but that's not how reality works.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/clinicaltrials/74524?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2018-08-13&eun=g1034808d0r&pos=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%202018-08-13&utm_term=Daily%20Headlines%20-%20Active%20User%20-%20180%20days
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