Since then a controlled study of parachute usage even found that they provide no significant benefit for people who jump out of planes to protect them from injury.
“Opponents of evidence-based medicine have frequently argued that no one would perform a randomized trial of parachute use. We have shown this argument to be flawed, having conclusively shown that it is possible to randomize participants to jumping from an aircraft with versus without parachutes (albeit under limited and specific scenarios).”
Read it and weep. (Or laugh, whichever helps you sleep better.)
I mean, that was really funny, but I don’t see what a parody study has to do with the topic.
To get back to the topic, we could define evidence_based_1 as something that’s recognized to be Evidence-Based Medicine, and evidence_based_2 as something for which there is good evidence.
I’m saying osteopathy and the recommended kind of massage are neither evidence_based_1, nor evidence_based_2.
You are saying that just because something isn’t evidence_based_1, doesn’t mean it’s not evidence_based_2 (and presumably the implication being that osteopathy is evidence_based_2).
I checked this paragraph and I’m not quite convinced, but I think we’ve exhausted the topic at this point (in any case, the OP knows about it, so it’s up to him to choose).
I mean, that was really funny, but I don’t see what a parody study has to do with the topic.
It’s a summary of the available evidence. Studies often fail to investigate what you really want to know for all sorts of reasons by having a study environment that differs from the way the technique is practiced in the real world.
I checked this paragraph and I’m not quite convinced, but I think we’ve exhausted the topic at this point (in any case, the OP knows about it, so it’s up to him to choose).
That paragraph is written in the same spirit of summarizing the evidence as what I wrote about parachutes. Both are straightforward summaries of the published evidence without engaging in deeper thought about the underlying mechanisms.
The paragraph also does say “moderate-quality evidence that OMT reduces pain and improves functional status in acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain”.
It’s in the nature of looking for evidence that you will be able to write metastudies about thousands of different things for which there’s no evidence that treatment X helps. Aspirin (another treatment for low back pain) also doesn’t help with asthma. That in no way implies Aspirin not being EBM.
Wait, what?
From Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial:
Read it and weep. (Or laugh, whichever helps you sleep better.)
The study is Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: a randomised controlled trial by Yeh et al.
I mean, that was really funny, but I don’t see what a parody study has to do with the topic.
To get back to the topic, we could define evidence_based_1 as something that’s recognized to be Evidence-Based Medicine, and evidence_based_2 as something for which there is good evidence.
I’m saying osteopathy and the recommended kind of massage are neither evidence_based_1, nor evidence_based_2.
You are saying that just because something isn’t evidence_based_1, doesn’t mean it’s not evidence_based_2 (and presumably the implication being that osteopathy is evidence_based_2).
I checked this paragraph and I’m not quite convinced, but I think we’ve exhausted the topic at this point (in any case, the OP knows about it, so it’s up to him to choose).
It’s a summary of the available evidence. Studies often fail to investigate what you really want to know for all sorts of reasons by having a study environment that differs from the way the technique is practiced in the real world.
That paragraph is written in the same spirit of summarizing the evidence as what I wrote about parachutes. Both are straightforward summaries of the published evidence without engaging in deeper thought about the underlying mechanisms.
The paragraph also does say “moderate-quality evidence that OMT reduces pain and improves functional status in acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain”.
It’s in the nature of looking for evidence that you will be able to write metastudies about thousands of different things for which there’s no evidence that treatment X helps. Aspirin (another treatment for low back pain) also doesn’t help with asthma. That in no way implies Aspirin not being EBM.