I find your complaint rather baffling: statistics is how we figure out what is going on in large populations when many variables are in play. How else would we

I find your complaint rather baffling: statistics is how we figure out what is going on in large populations when many variables are in play. How else would we advance medical science? Yes, as the recent "reproducibility crisis" has shown us (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/11/10/reproducibility-crisis-the-plot-thickens/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/11/10/re...), there is severe danger in playing with statistics, even mildly. But that does not mean we should stop using statistics altogether: it means we should come up with better protocols and procedures to prevent the biases we discover.