Effects Of Vertical Acceleration On Wrongness

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Feb 20, 2014 56 words Read today Read Opened today Opened

The author humorously responds to a common argument against evidence-based medicine, suggesting a parachute experiment with a twist.

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Whenever someone sneers “Evidence-based medicine? You wouldn’t demand a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of PARACHUTES, would you?” I feel a strong urge to use them as the control group in my double-blind parachute experiment.

Of course, deep down inside I know that this would be morally wrong. Groups need to be determined by random assignment.

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