One study, for instance, analyzed 432 different claims of genetic links for various health risks that vary between men and women. Only one of these claims proved to be consistently replicable. Another meta review, meanwhile, looked at the 49 most-cited clinical research studies published between 1990 and 2003. Most of these were the culmination of years of careful work. Nevertheless, more than 40 percent of them were later shown to be either totally wrong or significantly incorrect.
Those didn’t analyze all of medicine, of course, but it does sound pretty bad for the overall percentage.
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Those didn’t analyze all of medicine, of course, but it does sound pretty bad for the overall percentage.