I am sympathetic to all of these comments but I think deworming is a uniquely bad intervention on which to apply strong priors/reasoning over evidence. It has been a highly controversial subject with strong arguments on both sides, and even the most positive studies of deworming are silent on the mechanisms for large long term effects from a brief intervention. Even consulting experts is not a guarantee of good judgments on a topic that is so polarizing in the expert community. I’m really curious how they arrived at this strong prior.
I am sympathetic to all of these comments but I think deworming is a uniquely bad intervention on which to apply strong priors/reasoning over evidence. It has been a highly controversial subject with strong arguments on both sides, and even the most positive studies of deworming are silent on the mechanisms for large long term effects from a brief intervention. Even consulting experts is not a guarantee of good judgments on a topic that is so polarizing in the expert community. I’m really curious how they arrived at this strong prior.