Pregnancy is increasingly undertaken in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and,
conversely, CKD is increasingly diagnosed in pregnancy: up to 3% of pregnancies are …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become a required element of clinical practice, but it is
critical for the healthcare community to understand the ongoing controversy surrounding …

This paper explores the nature of causation within the framework of evidence‐based
practice (EBP) for health care. The aims of the paper were first to define and evaluate how …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) makes use of explicit procedures for grading evidence for
causal claims. Normally, these procedures categorise evidence of correlation produced by …

Scientific consensus is widely deferred to in public debates as a social indicator of the
existence of knowledge. However, it is far from clear that such deference to consensus is …

The movement towards evidence-based practice in psychotherapy has recently provoked a
backlash. In the past few years, some authors have raised questions concerning the validity …

Philosophical discussions on causal inference in medicine are stuck in dyadic camps, each
defending one kind of evidence or method rather than another as best support for causal …

Literature-based meta-analysis is a standard technique applied to pool results of individual
studies used in medicine and social sciences. It has been criticized for being too malleable …

The current strategy of searching for an effective treatment for COVID-19 relies mainly on
repurposing existing therapies developed to target other diseases. Conflicting results have …

Is there really a thin line between madness and genius? This book provides a thorough
review of the current state of knowledge on this age old idea, and presents new empirical …