I’m not disagreeing with you that proper statistical research especially in a clinical setting is hard. It was the “tricks” and hint of non-physics : no-science

I’m not disagreeing with you that proper statistical research especially in a clinical setting is hard. It was the “tricks” and hint of non-physics : no-science I was responding to. I do think we should give doctors the benefit of the doubt. Just imagine the work involved in research with 100 real patients, let alone larger numbers. Then the next point is: where to get your research subjects. If you want to study non-linearities you’d want both patients and healthy subjects (and ideally people who switch categories). That’s several orders of magnitude more complex to get going. Not every subject gets funding for that scale.