Nine years ago, in my first editorial for Evidence-Based Mental Health (EBMH) as editor in chief, I wrote that ‘EBMH should be seen as a tool to engage new generations of psychiatrists and psychologists to develop and implement the evidence-based approach into daily clinical practice.’ I took the job when I moved to Oxford and one of the main reasons why I accepted the challenge of editing this journal was the name of the journal itself. Evidence is anything presented in support of an assertion. Even if ‘evidence’ is not necessarily ‘evident’, be it strong (ideal scenario) or weak (too often the case), evidence is about data (scientific data, possibly!). Evidence can change over the years, but it is the closest we can get to the truth itself when we deal with health-related issues. As a practising psychiatrist, I think that evidence is the only …

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九年前，在我作为《循证心理健康》（EBMH）主编的第一篇社论中，我写道：“EBMH 应被视为一种工具，让新一代精神病学家和心理学家参与开发和实施循证方法进入日常临床实践。我搬到牛津后接受了这份工作，我接受编辑这本期刊的挑战的主要原因之一是期刊本身的名称。证据是任何支持断言的东西。即使“证据”不一定是“明显的”，无论是强（理想情况）还是弱（情况经常如此），证据都是关于数据的（可能是科学数据！）。多年来，证据可能会发生变化，但当我们处理与健康相关的问题时，这是我们能得到的最接近事实本身的证据。作为一名执业精神科医生，我认为证据是唯一的……