Are you serious?
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 […]
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 […]
You might be wondering whether I am suggesting that all the quantitative research that has gone before is useless? That the massive industry of investigative clinical research has accomplished nothing? […]
Before responding to questions and objections, let me summarize my argument here. I have argued that the entire edifice of Evidence-Based Medicine is premised on what I call the “fallacy […]
It might be pointed out that my critique of Evidence-Based Medicine is actually a straw man argument, insofar as EBM just represents an approach to evaluating and interpreting clinical research. […]
Even if you concede that there might be some merit to the argument here, what about bias and research. One of the key aspects of EBM is to detect bias […]
What about all the examples of research which appear to lead to better patient care? What about a trial like NSABP-06 which has changed the way we treat breast cancer? […]