Evidence-Based and Eminence-Based Science

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Ed Hessler

Late again. I apologize but still doing some clean-up from the Internet failure.

There is a difference, a large difference, between what Joe Schwarz of the Office for Science & Society, McGill University, refers to as "eminence-based medicine" and "evidence-based medicine."

In his video column, The Right Chemistry, Dr. Schwarz explains (4m 46s), using a variety of images.