But as I've posted previously, and as you can find trivially easily via Google, of the 30 year increase in life expectancy in the US, a minimum of 25 of those years have come from public health improvements rather than from modern medicine.
Assuming you are getting the 25 years from the CDC[1], you are being obtuse. Immunizations is the first thing listed. Vaccines are a component of modern medicine. Control of Infectious diseases includes antibiotics, which are medicine. Clicking on "Declines in Deaths from Heart Disease and Stroke" shows that it includes "an increase in the percentage of persons with hypertension who have the condition treated and controlled" using pharmaceuticals, definitively modern medicine.
In summary, these 25 years aren't coming from just getting people to quit smoking. There's a large component that is modern medicine.
Given that the argument was about the reliability of modern medical studies, it would probably be only reasonable to include studies that came onto the market after the era of plabeco controlled RCTs. But many if not most of the most impactful vaccines came out before then. Of the remaining important vaccines, they account for only a tiny fraction of the literature.
But more importantly, it's not even a valid argument to begin with since the increase in life expectancy has nothing to do with the percentage of medical papers that are flawed.
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Assuming you are getting the 25 years from the CDC[1], you are being obtuse. Immunizations is the first thing listed. Vaccines are a component of modern medicine. Control of Infectious diseases includes antibiotics, which are medicine. Clicking on "Declines in Deaths from Heart Disease and Stroke" shows that it includes "an increase in the percentage of persons with hypertension who have the condition treated and controlled" using pharmaceuticals, definitively modern medicine.
In summary, these 25 years aren't coming from just getting people to quit smoking. There's a large component that is modern medicine.
[1] http://www.cdc.gov/about/history/tengpha.htm
"Vaccines are a component of modern medicine."
Given that the argument was about the reliability of modern medical studies, it would probably be only reasonable to include studies that came onto the market after the era of plabeco controlled RCTs. But many if not most of the most impactful vaccines came out before then. Of the remaining important vaccines, they account for only a tiny fraction of the literature.
But more importantly, it's not even a valid argument to begin with since the increase in life expectancy has nothing to do with the percentage of medical papers that are flawed.