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You are correct, it is science. The differentiator that I see is that the medical community are under pressure to apply the most cutting edge science in real l
by ilovetux 3y ago
You are correct, it is science.
The differentiator that I see is that the medical community are under pressure to apply the most cutting edge science in real life-and-death scenarios, so they are uniquely positioned to be burned by trusting a new hypothesis which appears correct but is subtly but completely wrong which could absolutely cause someone to lose their life.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoBut the alternative, waiting to apply new-but-actually-correct hypotheses until totally, absolutely proven, also causes lost lives. And as is usual with "Type 1" vs "Type 2" errors, saving lives by avoiding one problem costs lives due to the other problem. The trick is to sit in the minimum of "lives lost due to Type 1 errors plus lives lost due to Type 2 errors". Unfortunately, that's not an analytic function with a known formula and computable derivative...