Science libraries are fantastically helpful for tracking down the origins of error in scientific thinking. For example, the female doctor who gave PMS its name

Science libraries are fantastically helpful for tracking down the origins of error in scientific thinking. For example, the female doctor who gave PMS its name also gave a recommended treatment, though she admitted that it was uncertain why the treatment worked. A later book - a collection of papers, iirc, said "yeah that old treatment didn't actually work," but added nothing of substance to provide better treatments. Just a few weeks ago the caller to a Science Friday called to complain about male whiners who couldn't tolerate the side effects of the male pill they were trialing: Jessica: Hi, [...] I tried about six different birth controls. Depo-Provera made me manic and suicidal, yet that's still on the market and considered acceptable for women to take. [...] It's okay that I was suicidal, and that that form of birth control is still on the market. [...] - http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/looking-beyond-condoms-for-male-contraception/ http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/looking-beyond-condoms... Maybe if doctors spent more time in science libraries iatrogenic illness wouldn't be such a problem.