I’d give the doctor above a little more credit than that, and also would expect the papers she dislikes to be far less impactful than that. Clinicians I know w

I’d give the doctor above a little more credit than that, and also would expect the papers she dislikes to be far less impactful than that. Clinicians I know who get frustrated with academic research that draws conclusions about clinical work are criticising papers that are more like this: (I’m exaggerating for effect, but not exaggerating a lot) “People think this clinical technique is effective. But when some academics with very little clinical experience performed a rough approximation of the technique, in the wrong area, with the wrong tools, in the wrong way, on a small number of randomly chosen patients, they found it performed no better than placebo. Therefore no one should use that technique on any patient.”