Experience
2 pieces tagged Experience.
A Ghost of Progress - How Hierarchies Become Fixtures
I have written extensively on hierarchies of evidence in evidence-based medicine. The origin story of hierarchies of evidence is a little contentious. Several sources in EBM cite Campbell and Stanley's 1963 classic "Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Research" as...
The Avoidable Scandal: Benoxaprofen and Theories of Medical Evidence
Benoxaprofen, marketed as Opren in the UK, created a scandal in 1982 when it was withdrawn from sale amidst reports of over 60 deaths and thousands of adverse reactions. The question of who was at fault for this disaster has been addressed many times in the academic...