This paper has a very critical tone, but it's still not making it clear to me whether the EBM movement has "failed". The counterfactual is not a world where EBM was somehow immune from being 'hijacked' (whatever 'hijacking' is, we're really talking about unintended consequences of the prevailing incentives in this sector) but one where that movement didn't even get off the ground in the first place. Relative to that, I think we're in fact far better off.