Does anybody remember when medical research was scientific? These days, any doctor who has access to medical files can claim to be a researcher, by assembling some statistics. Basic science is third cousin twice removed from statistics.
Never mind what causes disease X; if 45% of the people who have disease X ate prunes twice a week, that is supposedly a scientific discovery. So what if 45% of the people who have disease didn'teat prunes at all? Well, according to current medical "science," both statistics rank as scientific discoveries.
Science reduced to statistics is nonsense. Most physicians aren't scientists--but a few physicians who have ambitions beyond their capacities pretend to be scientists, and the medical profession more and more pretends that statistics, not science, can guide medical practice.
Nonsense. Utter nonsense.
Bert Hornback
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