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Our first lost cause is not in physics, but in medicine; the pertinent point, however, is to do with elementary probability, and is similar to questions that arise in quantum mechanics. It thus provides a salutary lesson.
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Streater, R. (2007). Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy. In: Lost Causes in and beyond Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36582-2_2
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