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"Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others." Thats a
by cup 11y ago
"Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others."
Thats a bit unfair. Scientists have been painfully working to advance the field of medicine for centuries.
- acchow 11y agoI think "real science" refers to reproducibly, experimentally driven science.
- cup 11y agoArab scientists were performing reproducible and successful removal of cataracts 800 years ago. Surely thats 'real medicine'.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoUnless you have a very loose sense of the word scientist, that's very much untrue. [1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2641521/?page=1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2641521/?page=1
- DasIch 11y agoDoctors have been working to advance the field for centuries certainly but for pretty much all of them science by any reasonable definition wasn't involved in the process. Evidence-based medicine (what else would it be based on?) is actually a thing and an uncomfortably recent one at that.