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Comment by waterhouse

1 day ago

> Its primary outcome is a modest reduction in propofol and fentanyl dose under a very specific anaesthetic protocol.

Ooh, that sounds like p-hacking. How many other protocols, and other potential outcomes in general, did they look at before picking the one to publish? If it's on the order of 20, then we can expect they'd encounter such a result by pure chance.

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