Marty Makary: “There's no statistical significance in the increase in…”

“The headline that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer was released to the media before the scientific data was released to the public a week later. Once the data was published, some of us looked at it and said, this is interesting. There's no statistical significance in the increase in breast cancer [from hormone replacement therapy]. If we don't have statistics, then we don't have science. All of a sudden, snake oil cures diseases and science goes out.” (12:10–12:16)

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