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

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98 Point Six Is the Normal Body Temperature

Mkoviak looked into the winderlick data and how the story of 98 point six came to be. He recruited healthy volunteers, male and female, and took their temperature one to four times a day for two days. Of the total number of temperatures that were taken, only eight % were actually 98 point six. In his study, mkoviak found the actual normal temperature to be 98 point two degrees.

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