Most Medical Treatments are Unproven!

Most Medical Treatments are Unproven!

Most medical treatments are unproven—not because doctors are dishonest, but because the medical evidence behind many common interventions has never been done. In this episode, we break down why so much clinical research fails to deliver reliable answers: publication bias, selective reporting, conflicts of interest, ghostwriting, and the broader reproducibility crisis.

We connect classic warnings about the “poverty of medical evidence” to modern critiques from researchers like John Ioannidis and medical editors such as Marcia Angell, and explain how weak evidence can turn into “authoritative” medical guidelines.