Roy,
Thanks for the alert. Brian Haynes, Gordon Guyatt, Sharon Straus and
yours truly have just submitted a response to Bernadine,
Paul Glasziou
Roy Poses wrote:
> I was amazed to open my US News and World Report (a mass-circulation
> news magazine) to find an article by Dr Bernadine Healy that
> resurrects some of the less credible complaints about EBM, and agrees
> with the Holmes et al article that EBM advocates are "microfascists."
>
> Her article is here:
> http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060903/11healy.htm
>
> I made a quick attempt at a response on Health Care Renewal
> (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/) here:
> http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/09/bernadine-healy-takes-some-cheap-shots.html
>
>
> But given Healy's world-wide reputation and the circulation of USNWR,
> I hope someone with more gravitas from the EBH community will do a
> rebuttal and get it published someplace noticeable.
>
>
>
> Roy M. Poses MD
> Clinical Associate Professor
> Brown University School of Medicine
> <[log in to unmask]>
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Paul Glasziou
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Department of Primary Health Care,
University of Oxford www.cebm.net
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