[metmom]

While clinical trials are often misleading, anecdotal evidence and conjecture are more likely to be useless.

Nonsense. Sometimes people noticing what is blown off as *anecdotal accounts* is the beginning of people noticing a trend.

Clinical trials *sometimes* misleading?????

Considering the increase in revelation of the amount of fraud in *studies*, I'd consider anecdotal evidence to be far more reliable than deliberate fraud.

[Calvin Cooledge]

Here's my "anecdote", not covid related. A couple of years before covid, I was in for a routine exam, and nurse gave me a flu shot and pneumonia shot. Fifteen minutes later as I was walking to my car, I suddenly had so much knee and hip pain that I could barely walk. I hobbled back in to the doctor. He said the shot would not do that. But here's the thing. I had never before or since had pain like that. And I had never had a flu or pneumonia shot ever before that. I don't need a peer-reviewed double-blind study to know the two were related.

As I told a relative, who is a doctor, when you dismiss anecdotes you are dismissing patients' personal experiences.