[A fact-free medicine? Report by Dutch Council for Public Health and Society is slap in the face].

A recently released report by the Dutch Council for Public Health and Society ('Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving') is subtitled "About the illusion of evidence-based practice in healthcare". The author argues that this report is a sign of the times, a period of "post-truth medicine" and "alternative facts", in which "science offers nothing but a reduction". Although the report rightly - but superfluously - argues that having an evidence base is insufficient for delivering quality care (no decisions without considering context), its depiction of the illusory nature of evidence-based practice represents a brutal slap in the face of all those who turn to sound clinical and biomedical research to back up or refute claims about the effectiveness of healthcare interventions.