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> I would rather doctors hedged their advice/proclamations a bit, then to be definitive when they shouldn't be. Then we'd be complaining that they're telling u
by dimator 3y ago
> I would rather doctors hedged their advice/proclamations a bit, then to be definitive when they shouldn't be.
Then we'd be complaining that they're telling us two wholely different opinions.
Medicine, like science, is based on available data. I have no problem with them admitting they were wrong based on new data.
- ejb999 3y agoagreed - but not only did they know they didn't have all the information - so they were in effect making a guess based on the limited information they had - but they also took the extra step of discrediting anyone that held a different opinion. That is not 'science'.