HPV, Cochrane Review, and the Meaning of "Cause" - Skepticism About Science and Medicine

"Correlation does not prove causation"--that has long been a mantra in the Quality profession and is intended to help practitioners judge when the behavior of two different variables seems related. Application of experience and reason to such cases can help avoid either acting wrongly in a given situation, or failing to act when the situation would actually warrant. That adage and its proper application are most important in the medical field, and Henry Bauer argues it certainly applies to the matter of cervical cancer. Bauer makes additional distinctions in this article, which should cause those in medicine to reexamine their use of statistics, limitations in same ("there exists no systematic, mandatory, global system for reporting adverse events resulting from medical treatment"), and their resultant practice of the healing art. (WM)

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