(July 5, 2023 at 12:07 pm)Helios Wrote:(July 5, 2023 at 11:44 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: No, it's more-or-less the application of the principles of evidence-based-medicine to politics.No it is not
The philosophy of evidence-based medicine was, ahem, inspired by the case of Ignaz Semmelweis. Semmelweis made a study which was widely perceived as flawed and having implausible conclusions... but which turned out, decades later, to be right (when Louis Pasteur formulated the Germ Theory, which gave a convincing theoretical explanation for the Semmelweis'es findings).
