SNIP: “Evidence-based” is the fuzzy, feel-good term doctors and others use to describe what it is they think they are doing, but in reality, rarely do. Some researchers, insurers and medical publishers turn to “evidence-based” medicine as the final quality arbiter for the usefulness of a procedure or treatment. “Is it evidence-based? What do the evidence-based guidelines say?” Well, it would be a good thing if the “evidence-based guidelines” were themselves, umm, evidence-based, right? Like, you know, high quality data and research. That is, the guidelines should have logical, high-quality empirical data backing up their methodology, not just their findings.