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I think you're misunderstanding the title. It's not that evidence based medicine has problems. It's that there are problems with how evidence based medicine is
by xmprt 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the title. It's not that evidence based medicine has problems. It's that there are problems with how evidence based medicine is currently practiced which gives it the appearance of evidence based medicine while actually not being anything close, that is, an illusion.
- chicob 5y agoWell, yes. My point was simply that the title misrepresents the article, because it is ambiguous. "The illusion of evidence based medicine" can be interpreted as a statement of how the aim of evidence based medicine is illusory. The short introductory paragraph, "Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests [etc]" furthers this idea, having a somewhat definite tone, as if this corruption were fatal to any proper scientific inquiry. The rest of the article dissipates this confusion rather quickly. Stepping back a little, how would one react to a title such as "The illusion of medicine", making the same general argument?