I would absolutely say that medicine is not science - or at least that it is very bad science with a low probability of being reproducible - and anyone with eve

I would absolutely say that medicine is not science - or at least that it is very bad science with a low probability of being reproducible - and anyone with even tangential exposure to most medical research would do the same. Small sample sizes, confounding variables in treatment, and non-random assignment are the norm, simply because practicing medicine is not the same as performing scientific research. Medicine is the practice of healing sick people, and (even if they wanted to, which most do not) it is very, very hard for doctors to convince an IRB that it's a good idea to give sick people a placebo. Also, despite some attempts to perform placebo knee surgeries [0], there are many medical interventions where it is simply impossible to do things like a basic RCT. [0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259