That’s not what I said at all.

Every time I go read studies, these useless “mores” really are meaningless, to the point of being deceptive.

Tell you what, go do a deep dive on Blood Pressure medication efficacy - turns out they don’t really do what they claim. And then dig into the safety - also turns out they cause as much harm as good.

Example: it takes medicating 33 people for 5 years to prevent a single cardiac event. That’s sixty thousand doses of a medication that carries a non-trivial risk of kidney failure (about 0.8 kidney failures in that same time frame).

Not exactly a convincing result.