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Welcome to the LimitsofEBM, a website devoted to articulating the limits and shortcomings of Evidence-Based Medicine (i.e., EBM). This website is directed primarily at health care professionals, but obviously anyone […]
Welcome to the LimitsofEBM, a website devoted to articulating the limits and shortcomings of Evidence-Based Medicine (i.e., EBM). This website is directed primarily at health care professionals, but obviously anyone […]
I have recently uploaded to YouTube a series of four brief lecture presentations on the shortcomings of Evidence-Based Medicine and why it doesn’t work. They can be viewed on YouTube […]
Before you decide that this critique of Evidence-Based Medicine is misguided and ill-conceived, ask yourself the following questions. If you answer any of them in the affirmative, then I believe […]
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed an idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear […]
Contrary to what most people might think, the primary impetus behind the Evidence-Based Medicine movement is not a noble quest for knowledge or a desire to heal patients, nor is it […]
When it comes to quantifying things in Medicine, there are perhaps no concepts more crude than QALYs (Quality-adjusted life year) and DALYs (Disability-adjusted life year). I wont go into details […]
It think one of the key underlying metaphors of quantification is one of digitalization. There is an intuitive sense that quantifying complex phenomena is analogous to the way we digitalize […]
The tools that we use to quantify medical phenomena are like a chainsaw cutting up a large tree trunk. When we use it on a tree trunk, it does a […]
One of the first questions which usually comes up is: “Hey, are you seriously suggesting that clinical research is useless and we should just give up doing it?” My response to […]
Some people point out that throughout this argument, I don’t seem to provide much “evidence” for my position, but use lots of analogies. Its more like argument from analogy, they […]