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0 pointstaneq7y ago0 comments

The simple fact that "evidence-based medicine" needs a special name to describe it, rather than all medicine being evidence-based, is still absolutely mindblowing to me.

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class4behavior7y ago

Uh, you're confusing this with the distinction made between Western standard medicine and folk or alternative medicine practices.

taneqOP7y ago

No, this term was proposed as an "emerging new paradigm" in 1992 (!!) focusing on "the examination of evidence from clinical research" as our most reliable source of information.

"Western standard medicine" was still largely based on intuition and woo less than 30 years ago.

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/40095...

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