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ChristianKl comments on Open thread, February 15-28, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 17 February 2013 06:13:19PM *  3 points [-]

Doctors get taught to practice evidence-based medicine. There's a lack of clinical trials that show that you can increase life span by routinically giving people who suffer from headaches brain scans.

If I understand the argument right, then doctors are basically irrational because the favor empirical results from trials over trying to think through the problem on a intellectual level?