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I am not a doctor. But I come from a family of doctors.

Patient privacy aside, I do agree with you and with the critics of the New England. Science is about reproducable experiments, and in medecine, because of the constraints on the "research material", most studies are on the edges of statistical significance, and with professionals that aren't trained statisticians.

The only mitigant to that is data sharing.




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