and welcome to tucker carlson. tonight, for thousands of yearsi ,clinicanel trials have beene be the center of medicine. and the idea is very simple. you before you operate on someow or inject people with some trias first. to make certain that w new drug, you run trials first to make certain that what you re doing will helpis is no the patient more than it hurts the patient. this is not a new idea. james lynn did it back inh the 18th century with his famous scurvy trials . in fact, medical testing hast bc been going on since at least biblical times. is why wouldbecause why wouldn , daniel, if judah compared toal l vegetarian diet with the diet td of the royal babylonians over a ten day period, we had a control group, independent observers, the whole thing. it s not complicated, but it is essential through history.oni very few have questioned this practice because it makes obviouit m sense, s sense. but now they are moderndern m medicine seemsed to be abandonig the clinica
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