I'd like to tell you a story I heard from my old man. My father, Dr. M. O. Azani, worked in the University of Wales in the 1990s, practicing medicine as well as committing to biomedical research (psychopharmacology of addiction). Every week, my father and his colleagues would get together and formally discuss things pertaining to medicine. One of those meetings included Dr. Robert Newcombe, professor of biostatistics. In my father's recollection, he began criticizing the methodologies of many reputable, peer-reviewed medical studies. He tore them apart, one after the other. My father left that room in an existential crisis, wondering how much of what he taught was bogus. He often quotes Sackett: "Half of what you'll learn in medical school will be shown to be either dead wrong; the trouble is that nobody can tell you which half." Why do I say this? Well...
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