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Bad Medicine, Part 1: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

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Birth defects resulting from thalidomide led medical researchers to exclude women of child-bearing age from clinical trials. (Photo: AP/flickr)

Season 6, Episode 26

This week on Freakonomics Radio: We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. Stephen J. Dubner looks at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and asks whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution.

Plus: sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included in it.

To find out more, check out the podcasts from which this hour was drawn: “Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6” and “Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations.”

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Bad Medicine, Part 2: Death By Diagnosis

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Season 6, Episode 27

This week on Freakonomics Radio: by some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what’s to be done?

Plus: Stephen J. Dubner investigates how so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to the market.

To find out more, check out the podcasts from which this hour was drawn: “Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations” and “Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis.”

You can subscribe to the Freakonomics Radio podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, or get the RSS feed.

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