Since February 1994 there have been 81 issues of Bandolier and 10 issues of ImpAct . There have been about 1.8 million copies of Bandolier and ImpAct printed. A total of about 700,000 words have been written. People are now visiting the Internet site at a rate of over 80,000 a week, or 4 million a year, and the rate of growth is phenomenal. The death of evidence-based medicine has been greatly exaggerated.
People still have problems in getting to grips with what it's all about.
This includes enthusiasts as well as critics. Kenneth Tynan once described a critic as someone who knows the way but can't drive the car. But an inability to understand fully how use of evidence is mutually beneficial affects critics and enthusiasts both. Healthcare companies persist in making information about products more, rather than less, obscure. They are not learning, and that is to the detriment of the whole community.