/oss/taxonomy/term/5915/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