Posted by used2b on April 11, 2005, at 23:12:25
In reply to Re: empirical evidence » used2b, posted by Gabbi-x-2 on April 11, 2005, at 22:18:36
> I wonder how many times science will have to go through the cycle of ridiculing the health advice suggested by "radicals" "old wives" or "folk wisdom" and then discovering they were themselves mistaken, before some will realize that science is hardly infallible.
Likewise, I wonder how long clinical practitioners will represent to lay people that various unique approaches are supported by empirical evidence, when the approaches are instead based primarily on anecdotal reports of efficacy.
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