# 'Car Talk' makes the editorial page of the 'Annals of Internal Medicine'

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-makes-the-editorial-page-of-the-annals-of-internal-medicine/93364>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-makes-the-editorial-page-of-the-annals-of-internal-medicine/93364 "2016-05-23T09:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-makes-the-editorial-page-of-the-annals-of-internal-medicine/93364/1 "2016-05-23T09:16:00Z")

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'When the Gold Standard Loses Its Luster, Perhaps It Is Time to Change Nomenclature'
'Annals of Internal Medicine' 17 May 2016, Vol 164, No. 10 pp 694-695
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2504523

'Another way to ask this question comes from an episode of the
National Public Radio show Car Talk: "Do two people who don't
know what they're talking about know more or less than one
person who doesn't know what he's talking about?"
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**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-makes-the-editorial-page-of-the-annals-of-internal-medicine/93364/2 "2016-05-23T09:33:36Z")

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Well, it would had been nicer if they could keep it car related 😃 But obviously, mention of the cartalk in a reputed medical journal goes to show the depth of the effect this show has had on our culture as a whole.

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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-makes-the-editorial-page-of-the-annals-of-internal-medicine/93364/3 "2016-05-23T18:58:52Z")

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galant: ’ it would had been nicer if they could keep it car related’

Those physicians just can’t keep their priorities straight.

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**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-makes-the-editorial-page-of-the-annals-of-internal-medicine/93364/4 "2016-05-23T22:04:40Z")

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The Andy Scale

> **[As Read: The Andy Scale](https://www.cartalk.com/content/andy-scale-0)**
>
> Potentially the best letter ever to be sent in to Click and Clack.