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Universities have produced medical breakthrough after medical breakthrough. Peer review isn't perfect, but it has gotten us incredibly far, and it's way better
by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Universities have produced medical breakthrough after medical breakthrough.
Peer review isn't perfect, but it has gotten us incredibly far, and it's way better than political appointees who don't believe that AIDS is caused by HIV making decisions based on culture war considerations.
- noosphr 5mo agoClinical trails have produced medical breakthroughs, peer review gave us leeches.
- clipsy 5mo agoClinical trials don’t happen until there’s a treatment to try.
- noosphr 5mo agoLike leeches.
- monkpit 5mo agoFalse dichotomy
- DiogenesKynikos 5mo agoHow do you think medical treatments make it to the stage of doing clinical trials? The basic research that leads to these treatments is all selected and evaluated using peer review. Even the results of the clinical trials are analyzed using peer review. You're happy to send us back to the Middle Ages, when people actually did think leeches were the solution to everything, because you've got some weird chip on your shoulder.