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How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

Medicine and the Machine

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Adapt or Dye? Is It a Pandemic?

The paper presented the EBM community with this kind of ultimatum is you're going to have to accept mechanistic evidence. And that's had a mixed response, I have to say. Even the editor was nervous. He tweeted about our paper and then he got slammed by all these EBM diehards on Twitter. So he deleted his tweet. But personally, I don't think he actually takes apart our argument. He just restates that EBM is what it is. If that's the best that EBM can do to argue against the need for mechanistic evidence, then we rest our case. Yeah.

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