Science rests on a foundation of data. You can’t do anything as an engineer, chemist or doctor without having data. Sometimes you have data, but that data is bad, that is, inaccurate. After more than three weeks in the NICU we thought the Deuce’s condition was improving for the simple reason that there wasn’t much fluid draining from his chest tube. But is no fluid draining out of the tube automatically indicative of healing? Well, that answer would be, of course not.
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