Is Evidence Base Medicine a Good Idea?

Modern medicine has embraced the randomized, placebo controlled clinical trial. What's gone wrong? Well, evidence base medicine is a bit like what gone dy once said when he was visiting england. The main problem is that something like 90 % of the clinical trials that are conducted to day are done so by the pharmaceudical industry. A part of the problem here is that government isn't quite doing its job of regulating.