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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 […]
It is worth pointing out as well that this process of quantification extends well beyond just clinical research. It is pervasive in modern life. We quantify the quality of movies, […]
There are a great many reasons why we quantify things in medicine and life. It allows us to measure things numerically and perform mathematical manipulation of the results It (appears […]
There is an old saying that 86% of all statistics are made up on the spot. And there is the famous Churchill quip that there are lies, damn lies..and […]
OK. So we’ve established that quantification is the central support of the Evidence-based Medicine enterprise. And that it is the sine qua non of EBM. So what? What’s wrong with […]
As I’ve indicated at several places throughout this website, there is a central assumption at the heart of Evidence Based Medicine which leads to many of the problems with modern […]
There is a somewhat apocryphal anecdote about the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, that tells of him walking around Cambridge and asking passersby the question: “Tell me, why for so long did people […]