What is Evidence-Based Medicine
This brilliant article gives us the true, original meaning of the oftentimes misused term “Evidence-Based Medicine”. Misused that is, by the medical fraternity to legitimize their own, often untried and untested (see below) practices and procedures and further, to falsely stigmatize the alternative medicine industry. This is a MUST read article…
WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE?
One of our newsletter readers wrote to us this week about the term ‘evidence-based medicine.’ “I am hearing this phrase more and more often,” he wrote, “and typically I’m seeing it used as a means of putting down alternative medicine, as though only conventional medicine has the right to a place at the table, and anything else lacks legitimacy.”
Certainly ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM) is an interesting and somewhat loaded phrase, the unambiguous implication of which is that medicine comes in two varieties – the kind that is based on a solid foundation of objective evidence, and the kind that is not. Because of the apparently stark good-versus-bad division it suggests, the phrase lends itself well to being used as a pejorative by those who are outspokenly opposed to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). To such people, anything other than standard conventional medicine is by definition unproven, speculative, founded on dubious premises and inherently inferior. As our perceptive reader pointed out, the term ‘evidence-based medicine’ is often used by such people as a rhetorical weapon, a means of devaluing anything that cannot be clearly identified as mainstream conventional medicine.
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