"The work is unusual in the strength of the study design," says Jon Baron, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that seeks to increase government's effectiveness based on rigorous evidence about what works.
Such a lender would take public equity, mandated to be long-term, and leverage that with private-sector debt.These proposals are based on rigorous evidence.
However, these practices are not based on rigorous evidence.
Western physicians and therapists are educated to question therapeutic strategies that are not based on rigorous evidence.
If you want the world to believe that your work is important and that modern life and a free society depend on a rigorous, evidence-based approach to things, you wouldn't ask us to take it on faith.
Dhont and Hodson believe they have an answer to this, again one based on rigorous abundant evidence.
Due to a paucity of reports on controlled clinical trails, no rigorous evidence-based recommendation regarding the treatment of bereaved persons is currently possible except for the pharmacologic treatment of depression.
Medical testing, in general, lags behind therapeutics in the understanding and application of rigorous evidence-based evaluation, and has particularly lacked a focus on patient outcomes.
"We need to have a certification process in place with rigorous, evidence-based standards," he said.
This final problem is especially acute given that Chagnon contends that cultural anthropology lacks a rigorous evidence-based scientific outlook.
