Superstition Over Science

We're making things I've never seen before
Behind bolted doors
--Oingo Bingo

In an Harvard Business Review article on the topic of evidence-based management, Pfeffer and Sutton (2006) cited research suggesting that the vast majority of medical decision are evidence-based. When I first read that claim years ago, I was skeptical of its validity. Unfortunately, the CV19 hysteria has substantiated it many times over.

How many policies recommended or enacted by health agencies over the past few months are grounded in conclusive evidence? Few. Masks, surface cleaning, handwashing, asymptomatic spread...

Superstition over science.

Reference

Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R.I. (2006). Evidence-based management. Harvard Business Review, 84(1): 62-74.