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LimitsofEBM.org

A site devoted to exploring the limits and shortcomings of Evidence-Based Medicine

Consequences

Are you serious?

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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 […]

Concluding Remarks

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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 […]

Consequences of the Argument

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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? […]

Consequences, Questions and Objections

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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 […]

EBM is just a tool for evaluation

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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. […]

What about Bias?

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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 the impact of good research

March 17, 2015January 23, 2016 wrosen

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? […]

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