wedrifid comments on MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare - LessWrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 March 2013 12:10:07PM *  4 points [-]

The only reason medicine stands out is due the the rather poor baseline.

Alternative words to "only" include "valid" and "sufficient".

Google is "search done rationally"(with statistics).

Your example doesn't support your intended conclusion. In a world with irrational and often unhelpful search engines and an unknown, newly formed "Google", it would be entirely appropriate to make people aware of it, in a similar post to this one.