Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade

[FlatAssembler]

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).

Actually, EBM is almost as old as the history of medicine itself. Its modern form is attributed to Avicenna, who predates Semmelweis by at least a couple of weeks.

Boru

Never heard of that one. As far as I understand it, it's the flawed responses to the Semmelweis'es findings (by Levy...) that led to evidence-based medicine. Scientists of the time were responding to the Semmelweis'es findings by trying to make his conclusions look unlikely (that the quantities of the poison are implausibly small) and by pointing the perceived flaws in the Semmelweis'es study, instead of attempting to make a better study.