Data Mining Obsoletes Hunches (in Part)

To: Mickey Kaus
Re: Open Source Health Studies

You don't need a public database on which people can test their hunches. If you're just looking for correlations, a database plus data mining software would be much more effective. I don't know the status of data mining in medical research. I'd be surprised if anyone has as good a database as your friend presumes. Medicine, unlike credit card transactions, is notoriously paper-bound.