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You shouldn't trust any of them to begin with, but rather grade them on their accomplishments (e.g. eradication of polio). Similarly, you should also have appr
by Natsu 11y ago
You shouldn't trust any of them to begin with, but rather grade them on their accomplishments (e.g. eradication of polio). Similarly, you should also have approximately zero trust in anecdotes about unnamed people when making medical decisions.
Or so I heard from some person who I believe to be reliable. Way more reliable than the others.
- baddox 11y agoThe trouble with grading people or groups on their accomplishments is that it's only useful if you're evaluating net accomplishments. If, for instance, whoever is responsible for preventing lots of deaths from polio also caused more deaths for other reasons (obviously I'm not suggesting this is the case; it's only an example), I might still be hesitant to trust them.
- Natsu 11y agoI wouldn't suggest otherwise, but there's a lot of publicly available research for interested parties to examine - http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/201/11/1607.full http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/201/11/1607.full