What's more depressing is that presumably people get paid good
(probably taxpayers') money to come up with this rubbish ...
Quoting Michele Hilton Boon <[log in to unmask]>:
> Absolute bunkum. It is totally inappropriate to compare the Cochrane
> collaboration, based on international cooperation for the common good, to
> fascism. The Guardian article makes this point brilliantly in its
> conclusion.
>
> Evidence-based medicine started life as a very necessary counter-discourse -
> rather like postmodern theory in academia. Successful counter-discourses
> always become dominant discourses or are absorbed into same - as postmodern
> theorists should know. However, EBM actually serves a useful purpose on
> earth. How many people would say postmodernism saved their life? (If this
> describes you, please contact Jerry Springer post-haste.)
>
> Rant over, turning my back on the ivory tower once more.
>
> Michele
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Heil Cochrane?
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