(July 5, 2023 at 2:31 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(July 5, 2023 at 2:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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.
I’m sure there’s lots of things I’ve heard of that you haven’t.
Boru
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