Since its fairly new term with some serious potential for misunderstanding, I thought I’d take some time to explain what ‘evidence’ actually means with regard to medicine and health sciences. This is a long post with some fairly technical terms. I apologise. But, in the words of Neil deGrasse Tyson ‘“Science literacy is a vaccine…
There’s this phenomenon I’m observing a lot lately… I’m sure you’ve noticed (or done it) yourself too… it’s the DIY natural remedy search. This is not only through google, but through forums and other pages like facebook, be that interest groups and forums or just as a post requesting advice.
There are a number of…
From the early times of western philosophy and science, the idea of the body as machine – as a series of parts pumping together like some giant industrial factory – has held dominant place in our consciousness. Western conceptual thought comes from a fundamentally cartesian, separatist model. This reflects across our philosophical, economic, and scientific…