“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine” investigates corruption in many areas of so-called evidence-based medicine. I found the author’s work examining Randomized Controlled Trials to be the most telling and damning. But there’s more of which I’ll touch on.Clearly, medical treatments should only be administered if they have been proven to be safe and effective.That just makes sense.It is an axiom of medical research that the best evidence of safety and effectiveness can be found through a large, controlled, randomized, double blinded trial.Alas, there is a problem.
