Damned Lies, And Medical Science By David H. Freedman

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In “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”, by David H. Freedman he talks about how people with Albanian names that have had their appendices removed in six Greek hospitals were probable three times as likely to be fine as the people with Greek names. Freedman says, that about 90 percent of issued medical info that doctors trust on is incorrect. He also says, that most studies from researchers are biased because they want certain results and that’s the only way they can get them. Freedman goes on saying that by negating a noticeable finding and putting a new catchy twist to it can cause people to read the research in the journal and become widely known. He says, that what tops the pages of medical journals are the researches that have questionable

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