Thanks!
Haha, at least you got that idea that the stork brings the babies cleared up before you went to medical school (doctor or nurse?).
I think that in the medical field, due to the complexity of biological forms and the possible "replication crisis" due to misunderstood statistical analysis (amongst other complicating factors), that the current "knowledge" is a rapidly moving target! I say this, not to cast doubt on the medical profession (my brother is a doctor and mum is a ER nurse), but just to say that a lot of the research that had been done in the past seems to need to require a revisit to re-confirm results. I had studied Theoretical Physics, and so there it is much easier to test theories. Apparently, these days it is unethical to make enough people sick with a particular ailment to randomly test treatments in a statistically significant way, meanwhile, no-one complains if we smash trillions upon trillions of particles at near light speed straight into each other!
Haha I'm a Clinical Pharmacist, just finished Pharmacy School and doing my residency now. Sounds like you have a pretty good understanding of the medical field coming from such a medically inclined family background.
There is a lot of misunderstanding in the medical field about statistical analysis. I had to take so many stat classes just because of this now and unfortunately a lot has to do with the pharmaceutical companies botching medical trials just to make their drugs "look" good or scientist getting paid to bias some "scientific article results." However, these issues are also impacted by other concerns such as ethics and not wanting to expose people to unjust risk if its not deemed "necessary."So I think at the end of the day, the problem is multifactorial in nature.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment back though :)