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If you’re serious about using a particular method to detect something, and you’re worried about false positives/negatives, you have to dig a bit deeper into the statistics. Just like with the covid tests, you need to be aware of the sensitivity and specificity of the method instead of just calling it unreliable.
More people need to understand Bayesian statistics