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There is a sharper contrast between EBM and the methods of clinical experience and observational studies, according to the EBM proponent: uncontrolled studies take certain reports of clinical endpoints as observation sentences - i.e., sentences that would be agreed to by all competent observers, sentences that are the checkpoint and basis for science - when in fact some of those reports do not count as observation sentences; and in other cases, uncontrolled studies may base their conclusions on observation sentences that are too tenuously linked to the claimed result, resulting in a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
An opponent points out that if the desire to die can be controlled with treatment, it should not be taken at face value; a proponent points out that if the desire to die is caused by reasons other than pain, it should be heeded.
Hence, according to the proponent of EBM, the conclusions reached through clinical experience are less reliable.
In other words, the EBM proponent claims that in the absence of a control group, the inference from observation statements (about the patient's condition) to the conclusion (about the efficacy of the intervention) is greatly weakened.
A renowned proponent of Mexican Spanish folklore in the Southwest and California was Charles F. Lummis (1859–1928), a self-taught photographer, ethnologist, musicologist, journalist, and the founder of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.