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268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

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Inappropriately Simplistic Thinking

In women, i it goes up with ovulation during the menstral cycle. The temperature goes up during vigorous ise and this is not a fever. And so mkovia concluded, looking at a rise in temperature as a reliable sign of infection or disease is inappropriately simplictic thinking,. inappropriately simplistic thinking. Wonder if the medical establishment believed for so long in an inappropriately simplisitic story about something as basic as normal body temperature? What other mistakes have they fallen for? Hope you've got some time.

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