However, that's not an issue of anecdotal evidence being unreliable. That's an issue of pharmaceutical companies choosing to place profit motives above consumer safety. They're not putting patients at risk because they believed what they were told, they're putting patients at risk because the payoff is greater than the risk.
The peer review process there is broken for completely separate reasons, though. It's not relevant to the topic of anecdotal evidence. It's not a failure of the scientific method, it's a failure of corporate regulation.
However, that's not an issue of anecdotal evidence being unreliable. That's an issue of pharmaceutical companies choosing to place profit motives above consumer safety. They're not putting patients at risk because they believed what they were told, they're putting patients at risk because the payoff is greater than the risk.
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