Surely, This Must Be A Joke?

"This" is a recently-published scientific paper entitled: Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and fascism. Ben Goldacre, over at the Bad Science blog draws our attention to it.

 

And no, apparently it is not a joke. The authors are deadly serious. They were also all born on the planet Zogg.

 

Sometimes, I despair. Ophelia has some relevant commentary over at ButterfliesAndWheels on the paper as well. If you then read the comments on her entry, it appears that there are some valid criticisms to be made about evidence-based medicine, but the bottom line is that this paper just doesn’t make them in any meaningful or readable way.