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June 2025
Science-based medicine vs evidence-based medicine
Member Steve Wolff has suggested we discuss science-based vs evidence-based medicine. On the website 'Science-Based Medicine', David Gorski claims the US Department of Health and Humans Services’ Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weaponizing evidence-based medicine to falsely portray vaccines as unsafe (see 'HHS is weaponizing evidence-based medicine to falsely portray vaccines as unsafe', 5 May 2025). Evidence-based medicine (EBM) emphasises evidence and considers the random controlled trail (RCT) the gold standard when deciding whether a medical treatment is effective.…
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