Medical and Educational Research: What To Believe?
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After all those clinical trials in medicine to conquer depression, Alzheimers, and cancer, we are told now that Prozac and other anti-depressants work no better than placebos and doing crossword puzzles, exercising, and taking fish oil does not prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, studies have found that mammograms, colonoscopies, and PSA tests are far less useful to detect cancer than we had been told. The truth is that even with the toughest standards used by medical researchers to demonstrate one drug, one therapy, one test is