Evidence Based Medicine Is a Fraud. Here’s Why. - facebook prikbord

http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-12-09/evidence-based-medicine-is-a-fraud-heres-why/

Evidence Based Medicine, EBM, is the current calling card of conventional medical treatment. Just the sound of it carries the cachet of high quality medicine. Who wouldn’t want health treatments to be based on evidence?

The reality, though, is that EBM is fraudulent. It gives the impression of proof for efficacy of medical treatment, but is largely a smokescreen designed to sell medical products.

We should first take a hard look at the reality behind so many of the studies evoked to support EBM treatments. It’s becoming a well-known scandal that much of what passes for science in medical journals is at best useless, and at worst is devastatingly harmful—as demonstrated in the mass drugging of women going through the natural process of menopause.

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Marcia Angell, a former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), has written extensively on the topic. In “Big Pharma, Bad Medicine“, she wrote:

The authors of that paper had so many financial ties to drug companies … that a full-disclosure statement would have been about as long as the article itself … The lead author, who was chairman of the department of psychiatry at Brown University (presumably a full-time job), was paid more than half a million dollars in drug-company consulting fees in just one year. Although that particular paper was the immediate reason for the editorial, I wouldn’t have bothered to write it if it weren’t for the fact that the situation, while extreme, was hardly unique.

Her point is that it comes down to money. As she quoted one person in that article:

Is academic medicine for sale? No. The current owner is very happy with it.

That, of course, is the bottom line. It’s why the term EBM is invoked—to give the impression that medical treatments are based on meaningful research. The purpose isn’t to produce research that benefits patients. The purpose is to produce research that benefits the pockets of Big Pharma and Big Medicine.