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No way man, the entire medical industry is well aware about the differences between correlation and causation. Trials to validate medicine heavily involve tact
by deltaonefour 5y ago
No way man, the entire medical industry is well aware about the differences between correlation and causation.
Trials to validate medicine heavily involve tactics to check for causation.
What you're reading here is just some journal that identified a correlation and the author of the popular science article can't tell the difference between that and causation.
- taeric 5y agoI think it is probably fair to say that the industry is aware, but most of the practitioners that make up the industry can still be susceptible to the mistake. This is largely true of science, as well. Note that I don't mean that many practitioners are ignorant of the idea. I mean that they could know it, and still fall to it. "Value based judgements" are still a large thing, after all.
- deltaonefour 5y agoPractitioners just regurgitate the results of said science. They use standard treatments and well-documented techniques without the need to understand the science around the development of those techniques.