another hogwash “study”
one of the few concrete examples cited was:
“Other low-value but costly medical practices adopted by patients themselves include ... acupuncture”
acupuncture isn’t costly and it’s worked miracles for me personally for certain situations ..
The whole problem with these "ineffective" practices based on big data is that they do work some of the time. We don't know enough about human biology or individual variation to predict, accurately, in whom they will work and in whom they won't.
"Life is short, the Art is long
The occasion fleeting
Experiment dangerous
And decision difficult"
That's as true as when Hippocrates wrote in 2400 years ago,