Why o why does this have to be so complicated.
1. Evidence based medicine requires…
wait for it…EVIDENCE!
2. There are currently 2 biasis in evidence based medicine
A. The scientism bias (segula based methods disregarded)
B. The profit bias (methods that cannot be monitized disregarded)
3. There will always be people willing to believe in things for which there is no evidence. They are not “retards”. In fact, in one of Rabbi Kelleman’s excellent shiurim he points out that all the members of the heavens gate cult where educated, well adjusted people with no history of mental illness.
So you have 2 choices:
1) you can go with evidence based medicine warts and all.
2) you can believe in leprechauns