Having worked on a startup dedicated to evidence based medicine I find this article very telling. In General Medical treatment seem to lack data driven procedures. Clinical Trials designed to prove efficacy rarely produce results significantly better than the placebo effect, and treatments are often prescribed based on a theoretical assumption about what should work.No where is this more true than in Cancer Research where physicians and foundations alike are compelled to tell a false story about winning the war...
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biz-technologist, data lover who dotes on his family, plays with tech. Europhile, travel junkie, startup-addict, CTO @ Flextrip (Tours & Activities Tech); Founding CTO of Everbread (Travel Search Tech).
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