Elsevier, Preventive Medicine, 6(57), p. 739-740
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.09.013
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Making rational policy decisions requires that one think about causal relationships.Use the best methods available under some transparent set of values and priorities.Methodological pluralism is a necessary reality of evidenced based policy.Scientific impropriety is never resolved by lowering standards of evidence.