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Your standards are too low. Human lives are at stake in medicine. Do you want a doctor treating you when they are misinformed by fake science?
by throwoutway 5y ago
Your standards are too low. Human lives are at stake in medicine. Do you want a doctor treating you when they are misinformed by fake science?
- dr_dshiv 5y agoI want doctors to not treat studies like “science sez” and instead recognize that “Science is messy”. They should use their training and experience to heal, not the latest publication.
- webmaven 5y agoI'm not sure that's any worse than a doctor misunderstanding real science. Note that the root cause (unfamiliarity with the tools of science, especially probability and statistics) is largely the same.
- rscho 5y ago> I'm not sure that's any worse than a doctor misunderstanding real science It is worse. A highly experienced practitioner who would've done the right thing might get led astray by new bogus research. Precisely because most practitioners don't have the ability to judge scientific work on their own.
- throwoutway 5y agoThere's a difference between mistakes and being maliciously tricked into making those mistakes
- webmaven 5y agoSure, there is a difference of intent, and a difference in motivating incentives, but the line is fuzzier than we like to think (eg. industries providing no-strings-attached funding to study everything but the area that has issues they wish to crowd out).