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Further reading about the types of bias in medical research:
http://handbook51.cochrane.org/
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148...

This video is the first of a few looking at why newspapers and website run so many bad articles about health and medicine. Some are just plain lies, but many are the result of lazy research or faulty analysis. I only came back to write this bit as YouTube said the description counts for something and you should mention some keywords so pseudoscience quackery confirmation bias cognitive bias Big Pharma oNe WeIrD tRiCk chiropractic homeopathy alternative doctors hate him medicine goop blah blah blah