Medicine has so much trouble with “good science” due to ethics. Random selection and assignment with controls are obvious techniques of science but it means not

Medicine has so much trouble with “good science” due to ethics. Random selection and assignment with controls are obvious techniques of science but it means not giving people medicine we suspect is interesting, or randomly assigning potentially bad effects to people. Double blind means the doctors and nurses who administer protocol won’t even know or care about your medical history or context, let alone whether or not they’re even giving you any medicine at all. So even clinical, experimental studies which start strong tend to compromise themselves after an initial impression of results.