And don’t start me on “evidence-based medicine”. I’m mad as hell such a phrase exists.
You shouldn’t be. Its origins have nothing to do with distancing medicine from ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ medicine. Those can be evidence-based too, if someone does the trials. The problem was (and still is) that medicine in general was not being tested properly. And even when it was, the designs were too biased and sample sizes too small to say anything useful.
Testing Treatments is a decent explainer which includes some of the history. And AllTrials is an initiative to try to force Pharma to publish all its trials, not just the ones that are good for profits.
You shouldn’t be. Its origins have nothing to do with distancing medicine from ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ medicine. Those can be evidence-based too, if someone does the trials. The problem was (and still is) that medicine in general was not being tested properly. And even when it was, the designs were too biased and sample sizes too small to say anything useful.
Testing Treatments is a decent explainer which includes some of the history. And AllTrials is an initiative to try to force Pharma to publish all its trials, not just the ones that are good for profits.