Hello BJ,

I agree with much you wrote.

But I disagree with your comment: "This crisis has exposed a huge flaw in the faith and authority of the "Evidence Based" system we have today".

To the CONTRARY, the crisis gives ever greater credence and tenability to the evidence based system we have today.

I think you need to remember a couple of things:

1. The evidence based system was in its baby infancy in the 1970s and 1980s, when many of the seeds were sown for the present epidemic. It has really only been since the 1990s that evidence based medicine has been hitting its strides, hitting critical mass, to make a difference.

2. It was the tools of evidence based medicine that uncovered the mechanism of the current epidemic. Decades ago a tiny entry published in a medical journal, by Drs. Porter and Jick, was sadly a catalyst for our present mess. The widespread misinterpretation of that publication WAS NOT evidence based medicine, a fact REVEALED BY tools of evidence based medicine.