Steven Novella
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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And it's the statisticians who are doing it because they know this is bullshit.
Well, I mean, what I meant by that was that its purpose is dead, right?
It still exists as an institution and as a thing, but its goal was to have the highest standards of evidence dictate medical practice.
And what it has turned into is a marketing term that could be used to support anything.
And the World Health Organization's document is such a classic example of it.
It basically proves all of our points.
You could support anything you want.
You can call it evidence-based.
You could pay lip service to gold standard science.
It's all meaningless unless you're actually freaking doing it.
And that means trying to prove that things do not work, right?
Just like that's a core rule of skepticism.
Try to prove yourself wrong.
We're not trying to prove ourselves right.
Science is trying to always prove itself wrong.
Absolutely.
Right.
So evidence-based medicine has turned you to looking for evidence to support what you already believe.
Right.
Not using evidence to find what does work and does not work.
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