Publication Bias Archives

Evidence-Based Medicine, Philosophy of Medicine

Echoes of Evidence

By Chris J Blunt 21/03/2019 12/05/2020

Do you have an idea of what makes good medical evidence in your mind? Do you have ideas about the kind of evidence you’d pay attention to, and the kind of evidence you can safely disregard? Or ideas about the evidence that would strongly sway your beliefs and actions, and …

Alternative Medicine, Case Studies, Evidence-Based Medicine, Hierarchies of Evidence, Philosophy of Medicine

The Positivity Machine: “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine” and Grades of Recommendation

By Chris J Blunt 31/01/2019 14/02/2020

By definition, I begin, Alternative Medicine, I continue, Has either not been proved to work, or been proved not to work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine. —Tim Minchin, Storm In his beat-poem Storm, the musician and comedian Tim Minchin lays …