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marcosdumay on Feb 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does ...

Yet, nearly all breakthroughs in medicine seem to follow that same pattern, at least for me, an outsider.

I can't throw it away that easily, and by the way you phrase your comment, I think you can't either. Yes, the fact that it is in the oppinion column isn't a good indicator... I'm in the "waitting further results" mode.

illuminate on Feb 27, 2014 [–]

"Yet, nearly all breakthroughs in medicine seem to follow that same pattern, at least for me, an outsider."

Yes, the pattern of selection bias.

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