We've all seen it.
We go to what appears to be a responsible, trustworthy, even prestigious website and we read some statement of presumed medical fact, possibly nodding our heads in agreement with it.
Then we go to another what appears to be equally responsible, trustworthy and prestigious website, and we read
exactly the opposite.What to do? Do we try to judge if one site is somehow more believable than the other, even if each is sponsored by a university/lab/hospital of impeccable credentials?
Do we try to figure out, from our layman's perspective, how two supposedly reliable entities can take the same data (more or less), if that's what they have done, and reach totally opposite conclusions from it?
Sigh.
The author of the article below laments, in a humorous way, this sad state of affairs when it happens, that is, when website A says such-and-such while website B says not-such-and-such. And he offers some amusing insights on medical studies and the confusion that totally contradictory studies on them can generate.
Even though the article is a few years old, it's as timely as ever. And funny.
Take a minute to have some fun reading it. The guy's writing style is clever, and his complaint about
the confusion that contradictory medical studies can create is valid.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/studies-contradicting-food-medicine-article-1.1783963