1. patients invented and self-prescribed the pill originally
2. the doctor has concluded that the pills are harmful by studying what happens who do not have the illness the pills are meant to treat take the pills
3. the doctor didn't really keep track of what doses were given to different patients
i.e.
1. trigger warnings were not originally forced on people, they were created by people who found them helpful to help themselves
2. the studies in the meta analysis are all on general populations, in particular mechanical turk and college students
3. there is no discussion of the different effect different implementations of content warnings can have. for example, the only study that measured physiological responses instead of using self-reported anxiety showed the highest anxiety response. probably, because it also gave a completely general and non-specific content warning that went like this: "The next page has the link to the movie clip. Researchers have been asked to give a trigger warning for the clip". so they showed that when told some arbitrary but highly disturbing thing could happen at any point during a video, people in general will be more anxious when watching the video. and concluded that content warnings are a harmful practice.
