Interesting. For a while I've felt that Medicine isn't the science it's cracked up to be - or at least our knowledge of the state of the art is never as certain

Interesting. For a while I've felt that Medicine isn't the science it's cracked up to be - or at least our knowledge of the state of the art is never as certain as presented by science. It seems to have many false paths of thought similar to economics. In the spirit of confirmation bias, I recently listened to a great podcast relevant to the topic [0] which discusses why this is. It's more than just lazy statistics. [0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/02/adam_cifu_on_en.html http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/02/adam_cifu_on_en.htm...