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The Fallacy of Confirmation Bias in Medical Research
The media love doing it and these guys get away with it because there's no one there to question them. Joe Rogan would be a good example of what we technically refer to as BS or bad science I was going to say but I was saying bullshit like that's welcome yeah it's civil science right so he'll talk about a study that's correlational and then he'll draw a lot of causal conclusion from it. The first thing you learn when you're trained in research methods is that that's BS right it's But the problem we have as well is that politicians get involved in everything and like none of them I really should beI'm even more fundamentally get your science from scientists like