In family planning service programmes ‘coordination’ is greatly overrated

Rebuttal: Is evidence-based medicine overrated in family medicine?: No.

YES. There are many points of agreement between our position and that of Drs Labrecque and Cauchon.1 We agree that data from scientific research are an important component of medicine and are one of the key distinguishing features of modern medicine. We agree that medicine needs to incorporate patient preferences and values and that clinicians should be expert and humane. However, we think it i...

Is evidence-based medicine overrated in family medicine?: No.

YES. It might seem strange to purport that evidence-based medicine (EBM) is overrated. It has been described as a Copernican revolution in medicine, celebrated as one of the most important ideas of the 20th century, and considered the leading movement in modern clinical medicine. It is claimed to be the standard by which all medicine should be practised.1 Surely arguing against EBM is akin to s...

Is the brain overrated?

Family Planning in Islam

ازدیاد توالد و  تناسل اگرچه مطلوب شارع مقدس بوده و در حد امکان نباید جلوگیری شود ولیکن اصل اساسی تر از آن  چگونگی تربیت و تأمین آینده ای بهتر برای فرزندان است، از اینرو غالب اندیشمندان اسلامی، مسئله تنظیم خانواده را جایز می دانند.

Determinism Is Overrated

Our accelerating computational demand and the rise of multicore hardware have made parallel programs, especially shared-memory multithreaded programs, increasingly pervasive and critical. Yet, these programs remain extremely difficult to write, test, analyze, debug, and verify. Conventional wisdom has attributed these difficulties to nondeterminism, and researchers have recently dedicated much ...