title: Introduction to the symposium: what evidence based medicine is and what it is not.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Liberati
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vineis
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000941:ethics* / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans