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2. View the following video https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?language=en#t-840484
A) The speaker says epidemiology is the science of how we know. Explain what he means.
B) What might be wrong with a clinical trial that compares a new medicine to a placebo rather than to a medicine that is the standard of care for treating the same illness?
C) What are some ways to ârigâ a particular study on a new drug?
D) Give an example of publication bias.
E) What does the speaker, Ben Goldacre, think is the single biggest ethical problem facing medicine today? Do you think you or anyone you know may have been affected by this personally? Why or why not?
2. View the following video https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?language=en#t-840484
A) The speaker says epidemiology is the science of how we know. Explain what he means.
B) What might be wrong with a clinical trial that compares a new medicine to a placebo rather than to a medicine that is the standard of care for treating the same illness?
C) What are some ways to ârigâ a particular study on a new drug?
D) Give an example of publication bias.
E) What does the speaker, Ben Goldacre, think is the single biggest ethical problem facing medicine today? Do you think you or anyone you know may have been affected by this personally? Why or why not?
Jamar FerryLv2
4 Mar 2019
