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In this section, we will look at how these restrictions are to be understood and justified from the perspective of the Quinean metaphor.
In Quinean terms, in an uncontrolled study, the observation statements (about the patient's condition) and the theoretical statement (about the efficacy of the treatment) may be linked too tenuously along the radii of the web; in the extreme case, the apparent linkage may be purely by chance.
It is clear that for clinical experience and observational studies, there is a risk of different sorts of bias; in Quinean terms, the controls imposed by RCTs give us firmer observational checkpoints and stronger inferences from observations to conclusions, particular conclusions about interventions.
From the Quinean perspective, we could also say that all three are anchored to observation statements at the periphery of the web in similar ways.
The dependence of RCTs upon the backdrop of basic science is unsurprising from the Quinean perspective.