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Science is also a weak-link problem. Wakefield's paper on MMR vaccine and autism is a demonstration of the damage low-end outliers in science can do.
by jmpeax 3y ago
Science is also a weak-link problem. Wakefield's paper on MMR vaccine and autism is a demonstration of the damage low-end outliers in science can do.
- readthenotes1 3y agoHe also misunderstands disease care. If there were no gatekeepers, medical Care would be dominated by worse doctors than we have now. I think we can summarize it as a false dichotomy.
- bsder 3y agoMedicine is a weak-link problem. Outliers on the far end kill people.
- jrumbut 3y agoI would say, in this author's phrasing, that knowledge generation is a strong link problem and knowledge consumption is a weak link problem. You can find scientists engaged in addressing both, so I don't think the strong-link only approach would work. I like the author's model but I don't quite agree with the conclusions they draw from it.