By the mid-19th century, empiricism - both in the trial-and-error sense and in the accumulation of scientific knowledge - had vastly improved many fields: transportation, communications, armaments. Medicine lagged terribly behind.
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Worse, nearly every story of medical progress in the late 18th to late 19th centuries is basically "an enterprising doctor figured out the answer, but the medical establishment refused for decades on end to listen to him, hundreds of thousands of people died as a result."
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It’s a little known fact that his final words were “The vaccine made me sick.”
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This is exactly why no one should take what “experts” say at face value. Have skepticism. “Experts” have been proven wrong for centuries
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Stop. You're gonna make Tom cry.
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No pun intended. Lol
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*cough*tom nichols*cough*
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I guess the science was not settled.
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You didn't even finish the tread, huh? He talks about how it's a mistake of intuition and independently arose all over the world. Bloodletting has nothing to do with experts. It's more of a (incorrect) "common sense" phenomenon.
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It was a common sense remedy because doctors resisted the scientific method causing medical research to suffer as a result. So these medical “experts” were stuck with unscientific “common sense” treatments.
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