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Please can the BMJ readership note that the first - and the most
important - sentence in our electronic submission was omitted in the paper
publication of the BMJ today. It alluded to the fact that Professor Klim
McPherson actually has no idea what the Roberts's albumin meta-analysis
was about! Therein lies the danger of Evidence Based Medicine and it is of
considerable concern to me that this new movement has been adopted with
all the fervour of religious fundamentalism. One is reminded of Luciano
Gattinoni's perspicacious observation that "Clinical Epidemiology is the
graveyard of the intellect and those who perform meta-analyses no better
than common grave robbers"!
Removal of sentence
Please can the BMJ readership note that the first - and the most
important - sentence in our electronic submission was omitted in the paper
publication of the BMJ today. It alluded to the fact that Professor Klim
McPherson actually has no idea what the Roberts's albumin meta-analysis
was about! Therein lies the danger of Evidence Based Medicine and it is of
considerable concern to me that this new movement has been adopted with
all the fervour of religious fundamentalism. One is reminded of Luciano
Gattinoni's perspicacious observation that "Clinical Epidemiology is the
graveyard of the intellect and those who perform meta-analyses no better
than common grave robbers"!
Competing interests: No competing interests