Qiaochu_Yuan comments on MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 March 2013 01:16PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 05 March 2013 05:53:39PM *  5 points [-]

That's irrelevant to the point that incogn is making, though, which is that you can't make that inference from the fact that a label called "pro-life" exists because it's rhetoric. I'm willing to believe that the label "evidence-based medicine" is also rhetoric, but I don't actually know that yet; I would first have to know what doctors were doing before EBM became a thing.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 06 March 2013 05:29:47AM 2 points [-]

I would first have to know what doctors were doing before EBM became a thing.

And how good the followers of EBM are at actually being evidence based as opposed Straw Vulcan.