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Scientific Rigor: Rock of Gibraltar or Sand Castle?

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From: Dynamic Chiropractic
Date: 20070129
Author:Rosner, Anthony L

Nearly 200 years ago, the French novelist Honore de Balzac wrote, "For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth." When it comes to sorting out fact from fiction in some of the medical literature, that phrase often comes to mind when you review how published findings become a part of conventional practice. While we are blessed with the likes of systematic reviews and metaanalyses in the rush to establish what we call "evidence" in the new postmodern evidence-based world, we need (as my chemistry professor liked to argue) to look at the kinetics as well as the robustness of the ...

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