Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story Of 98.6 - Freakonomics Radio (podcast) - 0 views
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Simon Knight on 23 Dec 16How statistics, and research-design have changed the face of medicine. We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. In the first episode of a three-part series, we look at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and ask whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution.