Many people believe statistical data is the best resource or reference point for arguments on health. Doctors need to look for “evidence” from scientific journals to make their recommendations and prescriptions valid.

However, after the pandemic, the research field has proven to be quite dirty with pharmaceutical companies using strategies that can manipulate research projects into producing desired results instead of complete, transparent and honest data.

Think about it. Herbalists and alternative health practitioners have been discovering successful ways to treat cancer and yet our medical system still insists on chemotherapy.

We’re not here to dig up the dirt. The main point of this article is to help people understand that there are challenges to translating clinical observations into statistical data. So, not all effective treatments or your doctors’ observations can be easily proven statistically and laid down into a research paper. And, fully relying on statistical data may not reveal solutions we need.

Here are some possible reasons why.