title: [Statistical analyses: hypotheses or proof?].
abstract: Marc Girard is a mathematician and a physician, psychotherapist and medical expert witness on pharmaceutical drugs. He tells us his reflexions about the limits of Evidence Based Medicine, and introduces us about a critical view of the use of statistics in scientific medicine.
authors.affiliation: Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique et de Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine-Béclère, Clamart, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Girard
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000592:standards; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D012586:Science / Q000592:standards*