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News items on 'Evidence Based Medicine'
Scientific myths persist despite evidence
(The Scotsman 08/04/2009)
THE "criminal chromosome" and a gene for intelligence are scientific ideas that people continue to believe despite evidence disproving them, a leading scientist said yesterday. Professor Jon Beckwith said even when these theories were proved wrong, they continued to affect social policy and people's lives. He told an Edinburgh Science Festival event that scientists and scientific journals needed to think more carefully when presenting their research.
Boss of drug watchdog attacks testing method
(The Independent 16/10/2008)
In a speech to be delivered to the Royal College of Physicians tonight, Sir Michael does not mention Nice but calls the current reliance on randomised controlled trials "inappropriate". Efforts to replace judgements with more reliable and robust approaches based on "hierarchies" of evidence are wrong, Sir Michael will say.
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