skua<p>1/2<br>There are academics / scientists who distinguish between <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvidenceBasedMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EvidenceBasedMedicine</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceBasedMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceBasedMedicine</span></a>.</p><p>EBM seems to fetishise <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomControlledTrails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandomControlledTrails</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RCTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RCTs</span></a> as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoldStandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldStandard</span></a> and has given us at least the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cochrane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cochrane</span></a> review on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Masking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masking</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TomJefferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomJefferson</span></a>.</p><p>And, I think, also the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CassReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReport</span></a> into medical care for young transgender people. Here AIUI over relevant 700 studies were rejected on the basis that they weren't RCTs leaving 2 RTCs considered.</p><p><a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cochrane-mask-fiasco-how-the-evidence-based-medicine-paradigm-can-produce-misleading-results/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-c</span><span class="invisible">ochrane-mask-fiasco-how-the-evidence-based-medicine-paradigm-can-produce-misleading-results/</span></a></p>