LYMEPOLICYWONK: Saying what you mean and meaning what you say: Evidence, Science and the IDSA
10 Aug
Some people don't think that evidence-based medicine is about evidence. They think it is about power and ownership. I was a bit stunned to read Cerar et al (coauthor Dr. Wormser) take on the author of a meta-analysis on Lyme disease by boldly declaring that her conclusion was ``not evidence based.''
Kind of makes you wonder whether evidence is in the eye of the beholder and whether Cerar and Wormser have authority to settle scientific debates by proclamation of what constitutes ``evidence''.
Much as a scornful Humpty Dumpty did in Alice in Wonderland: "When I use a word. . ., 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Does scientific debate really boil down to WHO says and how LOUDLY they say it? Should it? More after the jump.
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