We've seen what #EBM #EvidenceBasedMedicine produces;
on #Masking with #TomJefferson assisted by #Cochrane,
the decades of infectious respiratory disease research that poo-hooed #AirborneTransmission, and,
the RWNJ #CassReport on care for transgender kids.
Lots of bad stuff resulting from fetishising #RandomControlledTrials #RCTs as the only research that can be relied on.
Will we hear from Trumpists that there's no RCTs that support action on #ClimateChange?
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There are academics / scientists who distinguish between #EBM #EvidenceBasedMedicine and #SBM #ScienceBasedMedicine.
EBM seems to fetishise #RandomControlledTrails #RCTs as the #GoldStandard and has given us at least the #Cochrane review on #Masking by #TomJefferson.
And, I think, also the #CassReport into medical care for young transgender people. Here AIUI over relevant 700 studies were rejected on the basis that they weren't RCTs leaving 2 RTCs considered.
Last week, the Cochrane Collaborative was forced to walk back the conclusions of a review by Tom Jefferson et al that had been spun in the media as proving that "masks don't work." Tom Jefferson himse
[Puts on asshat]:
Citation please.
[Wraps tinfoil over asshat and begins channeling #HilaryCass and #TomJefferson]:
You do realise that only Double Blind Random Assignment research counts as science, hmmm?
@m_scribe
Fine grained science is like a high magnification view of a benchtop.
It isn't smooth and can look very unsettling.
Here is an article describing the background of a rejected paper by #CarlHeneghan that claimed to show doubt about SARS-Covid-2 being airborne.
Note link with the #GreatBarringtonDeclaration .
Here is Hereghan interviewing the lead author of the Cochrane mask review, #TomJefferson the day after its 2023 publication.
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