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No. Medicine is so broad and subjective that it's easy to find an anecdote implying almost anything. That's why expensive double blind is so important -- even
by bronson 13y ago
No. Medicine is so broad and subjective that it's easy to find an anecdote implying almost anything. That's why expensive double blind is so important -- even doctors fool themselves.
How many "carrots cured my cancer" wild goose chases would it take to bankrupt even the biggest company? Whatever that number is, it's smaller than the number of wild-ass medical anecdotes rolling around out there.
Of course, everybody thinks that their own anecdote is compelling and obvious and all their friends on carb-free diets are idiots...