For how we live.
Common advice says scrape a bee stinger out, never pinch it. The actual evidence says the method barely matters — what counts is speed, because venom keeps pumping every second the stinger stays in.
Hospital admissions for food anaphylaxis in the UK rose 5.7% a year for two decades while the case fatality rate fell. The treatment recommendations have almost no randomised evidence behind them.
Both things are true, and both rest on high-certainty evidence. The phase 3 trial and the meta-analysis that followed it measured different outcomes and reached opposite-sounding conclusions.