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on 11/06/2004 20:11, Jon Brassey at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hi! > > I've just come across the following journal and was wondering if people had > heard about it, or know much about it? > > I have a few concerns about their use of the term 'evidence-based' and was > wondering if others felt that the term was being used liberally! I would read their editorial. I don't think they are using the term 'evidence-based' in any unusual sense (if that's what you mean by 'liberal'). There is an accumulating evidence based for many CAM therapies which doesn't differ in approach from the evidence base for orthodox medicine except in the vastness of the industry funding for the latter, with the consequent utter distortion of research priorities. Ronan M Conroy ([log in to unmask]) Lecturer in Biostatistics Royal College of Surgeons Dublin 2, Ireland +353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764) -------------------- Just say no to drug reps http://www.nofreelunch.org/