 cakebelly says: more: (full at source) However, a study based on the movements of 10 volunteers who were asked to perform a series of unnatural walks under experimental conditions has shown that swinging the arms in opposition to the legs significantly increases the efficiency of walking. A response from a reader: "Yet more stunning revelations from the dept. of the bleedin' obvious." "Yet more stunning revelations from the dept. of the bleedin' obvious." Well, yeah, but if they hadn't done the study, they'd be dealing with cries of "Where's the evidence? Where's the proof? This is just folklore and conventional wisdom!" In other words, paying for a study that "proves" what you "already know" is not necessarily a waste of money. Signed, I Used To Work In Medical Research So I Know What A Vanishingly Small Percentage Of Medical Treatments Are Actually Evidence-Based (Because Nobody Can Get The Funding Because "Well, We Already Know That")  "I Used To Work In Medical Research So I Know What A Vanishingly Small Percentage Of Medical Treatments Are Actually Evidence-Based (Because Nobody Can Get The Funding Because "Well, We Already Know That")" ..evidenced based medicine is not all it's cracked up to be. Many articles published in leading medical journals use questionable methodology - esp. in the field of parasitology. Bottom line is that it sells drugs. One famous case, written up in JAMA, was when Merck manipulated dozens of publications to promote their pain killing drug Vioxx. Getting published is no guarantee of quality. Bad science is bad science and dishonest research is dishonest research, whether it claims to be evidence-based or not. Like I said, I worked in medical research. I saw what it was like trying to persuade doctors to change the way they did things from the old way, which the data showed was not yielding the results they thought it was, to a newer way, which the data showed to be more effective with fewer negative effects. However, since it wasn't what they'd learned in medical school and it wasn't something they'd developed themselves, it took much longer to get implemented as part of regular practice. And babies in the NICU suffered unnecessarily as a result. People who will manipul... |
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