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Medical Nihilism
Overview
This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low.
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- ISBN-13: 9780191809170
- ISBN-10: 0191809179
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Publish Date: April 2018
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