hans_munich said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.

PharmacoVig_BOS said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

sean_dublin said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. Posting only so the count is not one.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.