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“Sir, you are unethical!” No matter how firmly I stand on the rectitude of my professional beliefs in a debate, this verbal blast will knock my ego off its feet. It is a terrible thing to utter and to hear uttered. I don’t think that I am alone in my reaction to what is for physicians scathing criticism. No greater character wound can be inflicted than “You are unethical!”
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Moyé, L.A. (2000). “Sir, you are unethical!” One-tailed vs. Two-tailed Testing. In: Statistical Reasoning in Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3292-4_7
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