SarahC comments on Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine - Less Wrong
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That's a very good point -- medical science being bad does not imply that your favorite contrarian idea is good.
So if I understand you right, the moral that we should draw is that the most reliable treatments are the old ones. A new study constitutes very weak evidence in favor of anything.