Bishal Gyawali: Anecdotes are Not Evidence
Bishal Gyawali, Andrew Huberman and Razelle Kurzrock

Bishal Gyawali: Anecdotes are Not Evidence

Bishal Gyawali, Medical Oncologist and Professor at Queen’s University, shared a post by Andrew Huberman, Professor and Neuroscientist at Stanford University, on X, adding:

“Anecdotes are not evidence. I can also tell you – from my own experience- how many patients have been harmed because of this. I don’t want you to take my stories as evidence either. Look at the data. Don’t outsource critical thinking.”

Quoting Andrew Huberman:

“The whole body MRI thing is controversial for obvious reasons. It’s costly and there are a lot of false positives. But I have neurosurgeon friends who tell me they do life-saving surgeries ‘every month’ b/c people got full body MRI merely b/c they curious and found operable issues.”

 
Razelle Kurzrock, Founding Director at Michels Rare Cancers Research Laboratories, also added:

“Omg. I totally agree with Gyawali.”

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