"What Works Now?: Evidence Informed Policy and Practice"

[Tom Kindlon]

From:
"What Works Now?: Evidence Informed Policy and Practice"

I can't see the whole chapter but it looks like there might be something there of interest to some people trying to challenge some supposedly "evidenced-based" claims

https://books.google.ie/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=LiGKDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA225&dq="chronic+fatigue+syndrome"&ots=VmRhnFAKDy&sig=DNWHdAPXUWYSyZTymeZJh-hz1iU&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q="chronic fatigue syndrome"&f=false

 

[Trish]

That quote is from 2007 [edit - sorry, misread this], and seems to be suggesting that published evidence can't be trusted, so the writer prefers to base their decisions on anecdote.

 

[Tom Kindlon]

That quote is from 2007, and seems to be suggesting that published evidence can't be trusted, so the writer prefers to base their decisions on anecdote.

Okay. I think the chapter itself looks more nuanced and that was mainly what I was referring to.
By the way, I'm not sure that quote is from 2007. No results from the PACE trial had been published at that stage.

Edited to add: Actually, I'm almost definite the more recent given she refers to a 2018 publication.

 

[Trish]

By the way, I'm not sure that quote is from 2007. No results from the PACE trial had been published at that stage.

Oops, you're right, it actually refers to 2018 in the text.
The 2007 refers to the date of a book referred to at the bottom of the quoted section.