Comment by qsera

>There is no form of evidence generation, real or hypothetical, greater than the randomized controlled trial.

Wrong. You are lying by omission.

Randomization and controlling are essential. But the version of RCT that we currently employ have problems with control and evaluation. If you have a flaw in control or evaluation, then the whole thing becomes flawed.

So the idea of RCT is good, but we are limited by our ability to control and evaluate.So there can be a better version of RCTs that we currently employ, but with precise control and evaluation.

> but the beauty of statistics is we actually can know

The beauty of statistics is also that it is quite easy to hide falsehoods behind statistics.

There Are Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

(I am not even going into the fraud problem, which is what we have discussed before, which turned out to be quite useless)