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Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)

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The Undersupply of Studies That Could Lead to Reversals

In a decade worth of articles in The New England Journal of Medicine, 77% concluded that what's newer is better. But if you tested something doctors were already doing, 40% of the time we found that it was contradicted or reversal. So I would gather that there are fairly weak incentives to do the studies that would result in reversals.

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