...is a philosophically scary thing. I recommend this article to your attention.
What's even scarier than the bad information, bad rhetoric, and bad thinking, is the idea that some of these people may be practicing in a hospital near you.
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'Preciate that comment, Ben. :-) I'd like to make a couple remarks: at least in my office, and my vague impression is throughout the movement, the evidence-based practitioners are more likely to go for the root of the problem and less likely to just dash off a prescription. Behold, to brush is better than filling.
Second: the article attacks a straw man. It badly overstates the rigidity, pre-vision, and arrogance of EBHS. To quote: "Foucault, for one, is critical of this power...a panoptic kind of 'expert seeing' that both determines in advance what will appear, and, more ominously, what will be silently internalized by the patient..." (183). That's just not how it works. It is, in fact, precisely the thing it works against. Also, in my limited experience, a Christian worldview solves most of modernism's abuses.
But I did particularly like your outline of their argument. :-)
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