“Evidence-based-medicine” (EBM) is the self-serving term that arose around 1990. Like many such value-judgements turned fact (“healthy,” “high quality”), it represents what is needed rather than what we actually have. I have written about the subject — mostly in passing — but have a number of drafts for various outlets and will present these in the next few posts. Today in the
Now this article is extremely relevant and necessary to these times! A very hot issue, or should be, especially with Science has recently been claimed as "Set", by those using it to manipulate the media and population, even though there have long been studies showing that who funds a study can determine whether or not it becomes part of the body of knowledge, if not the actual framework or parameters, and there for out come of the study. Thanks!
Thanks. There are two parts to the problem, scientific and public health. In the science end, the ground rules are that you have to consider that the authors published in good faith. You have to consider that the sponsor had no influence on the outcome -- however much you may suspect otherwise -- because there's no science once there are outside influences. So I can only bring out the faults in the science and ideally show how it should be done right, that is, how we learn something. It's good that we have people who can investigate the politics and economics. On Substack, NIna Teicholz, Gary Taubes and Mayanne Demasi have presented well the corporate and academic influences. So I am constrained to bringing out the errors in the science itself and can't accuse the authors. Of course, there is the problem, as in the Yeats poem, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Now this article is extremely relevant and necessary to these times! A very hot issue, or should be, especially with Science has recently been claimed as "Set", by those using it to manipulate the media and population, even though there have long been studies showing that who funds a study can determine whether or not it becomes part of the body of knowledge, if not the actual framework or parameters, and there for out come of the study. Thanks!
Thanks. There are two parts to the problem, scientific and public health. In the science end, the ground rules are that you have to consider that the authors published in good faith. You have to consider that the sponsor had no influence on the outcome -- however much you may suspect otherwise -- because there's no science once there are outside influences. So I can only bring out the faults in the science and ideally show how it should be done right, that is, how we learn something. It's good that we have people who can investigate the politics and economics. On Substack, NIna Teicholz, Gary Taubes and Mayanne Demasi have presented well the corporate and academic influences. So I am constrained to bringing out the errors in the science itself and can't accuse the authors. Of course, there is the problem, as in the Yeats poem, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?"