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Rachel Thomas: "Medicine is Political". This is a very dangerous slogan that blurs the lines between descriptive and prescriptive. Naked politics is dysfunction
by angelzen 5y ago
Rachel Thomas: "Medicine is Political". This is a very dangerous slogan that blurs the lines between descriptive and prescriptive. Naked politics is dysfunctional, to say nothing of partisan politics, which is basically the kiss of death.
- lbarrow 5y agoHer full tweet (https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1441569388289609728 https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1441569388289609728) says: Medicine, like all of science, is political: - which questions get asked - which projects get funded - how debates get framed - who the researchers are - context of data (what categories, what labels, which biases, what is left out) - whose suffering is counted 1/ Seems obviously correct to me. Certainly research allocation decisions at the level of grant funding are political.
- angelzen 5y agoAre there any other factors in grant funding other than politics? Scientific value and competency come to my naive mind. Perish the thought. There is a world of difference between 'sadly, there is a degree of corruption in the system' and 'the system is corruption'.