Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong - Newsweek

Newsweek article:  Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong - Newsweek

"Yet even if biomedical research can be a fickle guide, we rely on it.

But what if wrong answers aren’t the exception but the rule? More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making that claim. It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed, they charge. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you.  It’s a disturbing view, with huge implications for doctors, policymakers, and health-conscious consumers"

          Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis