Just because you might not be a scientist, doesn't mean you can't look for and understand the evidence behind a claim. Now you can get started by investigating randomised controlled trials.

Further Reading:
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Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst

How to read a paper: The basics of evidence-based medicine by Trisha Greenhalgh

Steven Novella's discussions on p-hacking:https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/get-rid-of-statistical-significance/https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/p-hacking-and-other-statistical-sins/

Rationable's article on Homeopathy: https://www.berationable.com/rationable-blog/2019/03/20/does-homeopathy-work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lind

https://emj.bmj.com/content/20/2/164

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

The blog version of this episode: https://www.berationable.com/rationable-blog/2019/6/11/what-is-evidence-part-1-randomised-controlled-trials

Intro and outro music: Don't Stop performed by Nothing More, from their album, The Stories We Tell Ourselves. The sound clips have been used with their permission.

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