Innovation vs Evidence-Based: A Battle that Need Never be Fought
Recently, I had a conversation with a medical doctor on social media regarding the amount of unsubstantiated “treatments” being peddled around to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. He was contemplating the possibility of some type of online oversight by credentialed healthcare professionals (HCPs) of these dubious claims. I agreed that something like this would be helpful although its implementation could be incredibly difficult. In addition, one unintended consequence of such a program could be that all innovation was shot-down as not evidence-based.
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In one memorable scene from the Star Wars classic The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker complains to Jedi Master Yoda that his X-wing spacecraft will never get out of the swamp where it has landed. Luke has learned how to use The Force to lift stones off the ground, but “knows” that the spacecraft is too heavy to be raised out of the swamp. Yoda tries to explain that the use of The Force is not confined to such simple ideas of weight, telling Luke that “you must unlearn what you have learned.” Unfortunately, Luke still has trouble getting past what he already “knows” until Yoda raises the X-wing from the swamp himself.
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