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41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Importance of Randomized Experiments in Medicine

In medicine correlation is not the same thing as causation. That statement its endemic in the way medical students are taught. It's good because it introduces a healthy dose of scepticismin anybody who's training to be a doctor about how to interpret a new study that shows there's a link between red wine and whatever outcome. And i think that's a challenge that our field has to overcome.

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