Evidence-Based Medicine Matters

Ian Mabbet

PhD Student

The reason I support evidence based medicine is simple. Whenever I make any decisions in life I try to do them based on an estimate of the outcome. As a scientist and engineer I trust things which have been shown to work through controlled trials, with sensible proposed mechanisms that have been peer reviewed by other experts then published. <br><br> You wouldn’t want to buy a house when economists tell you that you may lose money on it and you wouldn’t try to fix a car with a blown head gasket by bathing it in an extremely dilute solution of engine oil, so why treat your body any differently? Unless the outcome can be proven to work, or the reasons behind the treatment make absolute sense, then I will remain sceptical.