Prof. Carl Heneghan and Prof. Ben Goldacre begin EBM critique of Letby evidence
Prof. Carl Heneghan (Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine) and Prof. Ben Goldacre (Bennett Institute; Bad Science framework) begin sustained public commentary applying the EBM framework to the Crown's Letby trial evidence. Both identify four specific EBM failures: retrospective pattern-matching without pre-registration, absence of control, hypothesis-first reasoning, non-peer-reviewed methodology. The institutional UK EBM community's judgment is that the Crown's methodology does not meet EBM standards.
Source: Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine; Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
The same thread
The nearest events this site records in the same category (new evidence). This site records 7 events in 2023.
- Prof. Norman Fenton begins sustained Bayesian analysis of Letby caseNovember 2023
- Schneps and Colmez publish 'Math on Trial'March 2013
- Joint Expert Witness Insulin Report on Babies F and L filedMay 2025
- Cross-political-spectrum broadsheet coverage consolidatesFebruary 2026
- Netflix releases 'The Investigation of Lucy Letby'4 February 2026
- Italian Supreme Court acquits Daniela Poggiali — international healthcare-serial-killer overturningOctober 2021