> If you trust science as an institution the white garment of the doctor standing in the hospital which is an achievement of science will play in favour of what

> If you trust science as an institution the white garment of the doctor standing in the hospital which is an achievement of science will play in favour of whatever the doctor says. What if you don't has that trust (or even active distrust)? I trust science as a method for gaining knowledge, and I understand that it has its limits. In most things concerning humans, it's is loosely based on mathematical statistics. If you've ever had a serious illness and immersed yourself in understanding medical advances in it, you'll probably be surprised by the level of guesswork and unknowns of the operation of the human body (let alone of the mind). If you have a mathematics background, it can be frustrating to sit across a doctor who lacks such understanding, while you are trying to extract all the useful snippets of knowledge they do posses, so you could correlate that with your symptoms, since they are usually dead set on a diagnosis without sufficient proof simply because it's... the one they've seen the most (it might not even be the most prevalent one). But even in the simplest cases, you won't hear a doctor say that this is something with a high probability. Eg. give them a bloodwork with CRP, and they'll immediately tell you if you should be prescribed antibiotics or not. It's a bacterial infection, not with 92% probability (I made that number up), but 100%. Sure, it'd be hard to get the exact probability, but actual medical studies are getting into that (correlating all the symptoms and such). Sure, for a vast majority of cases, following an easy algorithm just works: that's the value of science being applied, and this is the reason we are getting our lifetimes extended and a number of sickness eradicated. On average! But bringing up medical doctors as the pillars of science (oh, and they are stressed out too? that will surely make them better at logic) is quite a surprising stretch.