That said, a creed, by definition, is not empirically based.

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It calls for drug policies based on methods empirically proven to reduce crime and promote economic and social development.

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We have been trying to manage our economy based on outdated and empirically unproven assumptions.

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Is the notion of the superiority of the evidence based treatment (EBT) an empirically bankrupt notion that for a particular problem, there is a specific treatment that is best?

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