What Scott Alexander thinks about health and fitness
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex. Keeps a numbered public list of the things he has been convinced he got wrong, which is where most of the turns recorded here come from.
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2 dated positions, 2021 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Scott Alexander has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldFluvoxamine probably treats COVID, at about 60-40, and doctors should be prescribing it on those odds.
No longer holdsMore recent studies have found fluvoxamine does not treat COVID.
SaidMore recent studies have found fluvoxamine does not treat COVID.
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsAt this point I'd give it 60-40 it works.