title: Reasonableness, Credibility, and Clinical Disagreement.
abstract: Evidence in medicine can come from more or less trustworthy sources and be produced by more or less reliable methods, and its interpretation can be disputed. As such, it can be unclear when disagreements in medicine result from different, but reasonable, interpretations of the available evidence and when they result from unreasonable refusals to consider legitimate evidence. In this article, we seek to show how assessments of the relevance and implications of evidence are typically affected by factors beyond that evidence itself, such as our beliefs about the credibility of the speaker or source of the evidence. In evaluating evidence, there is thus a need for reflective awareness about why we accept or dismiss particular claims.
authors.affiliation: Research fellow in the ethics program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science in the Philosophy Department at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Mary Jean
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Wendy A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003469:Culture; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D000066506:Heuristics; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D035502:Trust