Sep 26 2009
Critical Thinking
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Topic Overview
Index of SBM Posts
- Placebo Effect
- Prior Probability: The Dirty Little Secret of “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine
- Prior Probability: the Dirty Little Secret of “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine”—Continued
- Prior Probability: the Dirty Little Secret of “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine”—Continued Again
- The Role of Anecdotes in Science-Based Medicine
- Misleading Language: the Common Currency of “CAM” Characterizations. Part I
- Misleading Language: the Common Currency of “CAM” Characterizations Part II
- The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part I)
- The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part II)
- The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part III)
- The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part IV)
- The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part V)
- The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part VI)
- Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine Part 1
- Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 2: the Tortured Logic of David Katz
- Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 3
- Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 4: is “CAM” the only Alternative?
- Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 5: Penultimate Words
- RCT Plausibility Scale
- The Plant vs Pharmaceutical False Dichotomy
- On the nature of “alternative” medicine cancer cure testimonials
- Barriers to practicing science-based surgery
- Dr. Judah Folkman (1933-2008): The epitome of what a science-based physician should be
- The Placebo Effect
- The Role of Anecdotes in Science-Based Medicine
- The Bait and Switch of Unscientific Medicine
- Alternative Flight
- Bad scientific arguments in the service of animal rights activism
- The Weekly Waluation of the Weasel Words of Woo #2
- One Hand Clapping
- Reading Medical Literature with a Critical Eye
- Near Death Experiences and the Medical Literature
- Changing the Rules of Evidence
- Death By Medicine
- Recognizing Dubious Health Devices
- The Importance and Limitations of Peer-Review
- On the ethics of clinical trials of homeopathy in Third World countries
- Resistance is futile? Hell, no! (A call to arms)
- Death by “alternative” medicine: Who’s to blame?
- Barriers to practicing science-based surgery
- Dr. Judah Folkman (1933-2008): The epitome of what a science-based physician should be
- The Ethics of Deception in Medicine
- Deception and Ethics in Sectarian Medicine
- Annals of Questionable Evidence: a new study reveals substantial publication bias in trials of anti-depressants
- The Role of Anecdotes in Science-Based Medicine
- Antiscience-Based Medicine in South Africa
- A Foolish Consistency
- Persistence of Memory
- The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Ideology trumps science-based medicine
- Conflict of Interest in Medical Research
- Changing the Rules of Evidence
- The Real ID
- Diagnostic Dilemmas
- The TACT is at least as Bad as We Predicted
- Connections
- A Guide for Confronting Patients
- On the dangers of using valid placebo controls in clinical trials of acupuncture
- “Patient-Centered Care” and the Society for Integrative Oncology
- Postmodernist attacks on science-based medicine