Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
Dr.SurgeonPGH said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Pushing back on Dr.SurgeonPGH here. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
Dr.SurgeonPGH said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.SurgeonPGH said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.