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"Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed." - Ben G

"Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed." - Ben Goldacre

suoduandao3 3y ago
I think we have an inflated respect for modern medicine because it gets a lot of the credit for health outcomes we actually owe to modern sanitation.
- ls612 3y ago
  Antibiotics and the childhood vaccines are modern medicine and have had an enormous impact on modern health outcomes. The bigger issue is that we picked a lot of the low hanging fruit in the 20th century so now advances are harder to come by.
- refurb 3y ago
  The outcomes of antibiotics, diabetes drugs, cancer drugs is indisputable. You can't fake someone dying of those diseases versus being alive today.
u32480932048 3y ago
"Never trust a drug that hasn't been on the market for at least 30 years" - Samuel Shem's "The Fat Man" character(IIRC)