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Background

These thumbnails provide important background knowledge that will help you to understand the reasons why testing treatments matters.

  • Don’t be too certain
  • Doctors talk about guesswork in prescribing
  • Anecdotes are anecdotes
  • We do things because…
  • From person to patient
  • Stepwise progress doesn’t hit the headlines
  • Mistaking the cure
  • Believing is seeing
  • Synthesizing information from research
  • Marketing-based medicine
  • Science is cumulative, but scientists don’t accumulate evidence scientifically
  • Who says medical research is bad for your health?
  • Rethinking informed consent 
  • Doctors and drug companies 
  • All it takes is to find the gene
  • Patients’ choice: David and Goliath

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  • Explaining the unbiased creation of treatment comparison groups and blinded outcome assessment

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