The rise of evidence-based medicine and the ‘mavericks’ who defended it0

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• July 13, 2026

Analyzes of the scientific evidence led doctors to recommend that babies sleep on their backs.Credit: Yamaguchi Haruyoshi/Corbis/Getty Beyond Credibility: How Evidence Shows What Really Works Helen Pearson Princeton University. Press (2026) Consolidating the use of evidence in health and public policy has required decades of challenging work. Fifty years ago, doctors used to think that