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Vitamin D for Covid, What’s the Catch? - DarkHorse Podcast Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin
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Randomis Control Trials Are a Luxury That Requires Great Care
i think the problem is statistics teaches correlation isn't causation, but it doesn't tell you what causation is. Most of what we know about the universe did not come through randomis control trial. There are historical inferences that one must make in evolution. It's very hard to look at the radiation of extinct species,. let's say, with randomi control trial. This is not how we learned about plate tectonics or newtonian physics. But we are not scientifically hobbled by their absence. And so when you say your expert in in the question of a inference, what you're really saying is that you see something in the evidence that is unambiguous.
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