The scientific method must prevail over the empirical without excluding it, explains Philippe Froguel, endocrinologist and geneticist, professor at the University Hospital of Lille and at the Imperial College in London.
The general public has seen in recent weeks with dismay and fright the bosses of French infectious diseases swear live on television about the coronavirus and its treatments. At the same time, faced with the controversy launched by Agnès Buzyn on the government's inaction in January-February, the Prime Minister replied that the "experts" did not agree with her. Did we knowingly lie to us? Or is it not rather the "experts" who were completely mistaken?
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What happened then? To understand it, you must know that modern medicine was made according to the revolutionary precepts of Claude Bernard in the middle of the 19th century, later summarized as the "OHERIC" method. When we notice a new and unforeseen fact, we observe it, we let our mind imagine
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