A framework for evidence-based debate of contentious health issues

With the rollout of Obamacare, we are living in a moment in which there is no dearth of heated debates among friends, family, and co-workers.

And often times, these debates degrade to become emotion vs. emotion, or even ad hominem, and so these initially well-meaning conversations morph into heated arguments that lead nowhere. (Even Immanuel Kant advised debaters to out-shout opponents when more civil methods of discourse had failed.)

It is far …

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