/oss/taxonomy/term/4880/all en /oss/article/health-and-nutrition/what-really-meant-evidence-based-medicine <p>That’s an interesting question. What else could medicine be based on if not on evidence? Well, it could be based on conjecture, hearsay, wishful thinking, anecdote or just plain flim-flam. Indeed, throughout most of our history, medicine was not evidence-based! Bloodletting, purging and various herbal treatments were practiced without any attempt to systematically determine whether they worked.</p> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 17:18:01 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8969 at /oss /oss/article/general-science/tips-better-thinking-it-doesnt-always-get-published <p>Thinking clearly is not just about recognizing the ways in which our brain misbehaves. Sometimes, it’s about realizing that the information we find in the world is incomplete. We all know that political information can be cherry-picked in the service of ideology, but science unfortunately does not escape from this phenomenon.</p> Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8455 at /oss