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Comment by TimorousBestie

5 months ago

A very good point. These studies should be comparing QALYs (quality-adjusted life years, a measure of disease burden) instead of relative prevalence of a handful of negative outcomes, the latter of which is much more vulnerable to p-hacking.

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