August 21, 2026
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6
Freakonomics Radio · Stephen Dubner · 48 min
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A quietly unsettling look at how much of medicine rests on numbers nobody re-checked. Not a conspiracy story — a story about how evidence actually accumulates, and how slowly it gets corrected.
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Which certainty in your life has never actually been tested?
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