🤫BIASES🤫
Everyone is biased.
But NOT ALL BIASES ARE EQUAL!
It’s no secret that I’m HUGELY biased against the use and promotion of many treatments in physiotherapy, such as manipulation, dry needling, cupping, kinesio taping, shockwave, and plenty of other bullshit.
BUT… being biased against treatments with poor-quality evidence, questionable mechanisms, uncertain clinical benefits, additional costs, and, in some cases, potentially serious risks to patients is NOT the same as being professionally, financially, and personally invested in practising, promoting, selling, and teaching those treatments!
Of course, both positions have bias. But pretending they’re equivalent is just fucking ridiculous!
And I find it fucking amazing how those who shout the loudest about everyone else’s biases often seem completely oblivious to their own, especially when their income, reputation, and professional identity depend on a particular treatment being effective.
YOU CAN’T ACCUSE SOMEONE OF BIAS TO MAKE THE BIAS IN YOUR SUPPORTING EVIDENCE DISAPPEAR!
And shouting “YOU’RE BIASED!” isn’t a critical appraisal of research.
It’s often just a convenient way to avoid having one.
Everyone is biased.
But NOT ALL BIASES ARE EQUAL!
It’s no secret that I’m HUGELY biased against the use and promotion of many treatments in physiotherapy, such as manipulation, dry needling, cupping, kinesio taping, shockwave, and plenty of other bullshit.
BUT… being biased against treatments with poor-quality evidence, questionable mechanisms, uncertain clinical benefits, additional costs, and, in some cases, potentially serious risks to patients is NOT the same as being professionally, financially, and personally invested in practising, promoting, selling, and teaching those treatments!
Of course, both positions have bias. But pretending they’re equivalent is just fucking ridiculous!
And I find it fucking amazing how those who shout the loudest about everyone else’s biases often seem completely oblivious to their own, especially when their income, reputation, and professional identity depend on a particular treatment being effective.
YOU CAN’T ACCUSE SOMEONE OF BIAS TO MAKE THE BIAS IN YOUR SUPPORTING EVIDENCE DISAPPEAR!
And shouting “YOU’RE BIASED!” isn’t a critical appraisal of research.
It’s often just a convenient way to avoid having one.
