In high-energy physics there seems to be a 5-sigma standard. Does that mean that climate scientists shouldn't say they found strong evidence for global warming when climate scientists don't have 5-sigma's?
You are still confused.
In the context of this thread the standard that we are talking about is the standard of the objective reality. Things are measured and evaluated by how well they match the reality. This is the standard -- common to physicists and (hopefully, though I have my doubts) climate scientists.
different standards of evidence
Still confused.
Here you are not even talking about standards of evidence (which determine what kind of evidence would you find acceptable). You are talking about standards of proof where "proof" is defined as "enough to convince us to accept the following as true". That can certainly be different in different fields. Even from the theoretical-optimal point of view, it should vary depending on how much you stand to gain if the hypothesis turns out to be actually true and how much you stand to lose otherwise.
The standard of proof for physicists is five sigmas, usually.
But those are not the standards about which we are talking in this thread.
Do you consider psychotherapy a non-scientific field?
Yes. At best it's at a proto-science stage, trying to gather evidence. I don't think it had much success in systematising it yet.
Our society would profit if we had good scientists who would work on the topic of how to provide old people a dignified way to die.
No, I don't think so. In fact, I think it would be very harmful for the society to decide that there is a single, objective, "scientific" dignified way to die.
Things are measured and evaluated by how well they match the reality.
No, you are confused because you try to build up a strawman.
The criticism of EBM made in the article isn't that the authors want that truth isn't evaluated by how well something matches reality. It's that the particular way of checking how well something matches reality used by EBM claims a monopoly and that this monopoly is bad.
In practice the authors consider it facism that the FDA forbids 23andMe for giving patient data interpretation. 23andMe doesn't provide evidence for their p...
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