Briggsy, the Statistician to the Stars, has unearthed a paper revealing that evidence-based medicine* is a fascist enterprise.
…the evidence-based movement in the health sciences is outrageously exclusionary and dangerously normative with regards to scientific knowledge. As such, we assert that the evidence-based movement in health sciences constitutes a good example of microfascism at play in the contemporary scientific arena.
No wonder my hipster students chafe at models, estimators, and hypothesis tests; they’re all tools of oppression.
*the kind that uses statistics