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praptak on Oct 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma du...

You mean where's the evidence that evidence based medicine works?

I could produce some evidence but I'm afraid that then you'd ask me where's the evidence that my evidence actually supports the hypothesis that evidence based medicine actually helps.

nandemo on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

That's the problem of induction, a.k.a. "how do we know the sun will rise tomorrow?" problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

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