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The meme over the last decade has been "evidence based policing/medicine" causing me to ponder why there was ever anything BUT evidence policing/medicine. We're
by retox 5y ago
The meme over the last decade has been "evidence based policing/medicine" causing me to ponder why there was ever anything BUT evidence policing/medicine. We're moving towards "algorithmic based policing".
- karpierz 5y agoThe alternative to "evidence based medicine" is "biological plausibility", where you'd construct a model (say "humans have 4 humors") and reason about how the symptoms are caused via the model. So you might say: oh, high blood pressure causes the heart to be stressed, which causes heart attacks. So if we have the person eat less salt and drink more water, their blood pressure will go down, reducing their risk of heart attacks. In evidence-based medicine, the mechanism doesn't matter. You just need to show that X has an effect, it doesn't matter _why_ X has an effect. See here for more info: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8blgcc/has_ancient_medical_techniques_ever_proven/dxa1vkw/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8blgcc/has_a...