“Experiment is the sole source of truth, it alone can teach us something new, it alone can give us certainty”, said the mathematician, Henri Poincaré. Legions of great thinkers have fallen into this trap of equating science with truth, so it is no surprise that many medical researchers, doctors, and patients have come to believe likewise. But in medical research, truth in its purest form is rarely apparent. Results are presented not as facts, but as probabilities and uncertainties. Mehr
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