SarahC comments on Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine - Less Wrong

36 Post author: NancyLebovitz 25 October 2010 01:53PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 October 2010 01:05:23PM 4 points [-]

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.