Science-based medicine = Big Pharma? You hear it all the time from the peddlers of woo, but it's rare that they disclose their own profit motives.
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Science based medicine is for pansies!!! Real Men(tm) don't need science to make them well - we know what works intuitively, without all those stoopid, expensive studies!!!
That's right DuWayne! *grunt, grunt*
As a matter of fact, I just burned myself on the exhaust manifold of my car, and when I got don with my work, I slathered it with some butter, 'cause we all know that's the best thing to do for a burn.