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It's quite straightforward to trust Physics and Chemistry that delivers verifiable product. It's another thing to trust Sociology and Medicine with a track rec
by peteradio 4y ago
It's quite straightforward to trust Physics and Chemistry that delivers verifiable product. It's another thing to trust Sociology and Medicine with a track record of deceit, hubris and strong political coupling.
- jfengel 4y agoSociology, maybe. Medicine, certainly not. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1520/ https://xkcd.com/1520/ Medicine is demonstrably saving lives year on year. Some plagues have been entirely eliminated; for others we're on the verge of stamping them out. Medicine is a more complex science than physics or chemistry, with more variables leading to more room for errors. But nobody seemed to think medicine was political until it coincided with a political ideology that happened to have a penchant for declaring sciences "political" whenever they didn't want to accept them.
- peteradio 4y agoThe practice of national medicine necessarily becomes a cross of the disciplines Sociology and Medicine. I don't doubt medicines complexity or its ability but its not acting alone here. You are not prescribing well tested vaccines in a vacuum, you are best guessing and ramrodding via the sociological practice of "nudge".