WHY ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU HEAR ABOUT MEDICINE IS WRONG

摘要

If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol, then-after more study-it doesn't. Hormone replacement reduces the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women, until a huge study finds that it doesn't (and that it raises the risk of breast cancer to boot). Eating a big breakfast cuts your total daily calories, or not- as a study released last week finds. Yet even if biomedical research can be a fickle guide, we rely on it.