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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Dec 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Hugo Mercier

      Experts are only as good as the body of knowledge they draw on. When that body of knowledge is wrong, an expert is simply someone who transmits to you the errors of others.https://twitter.com/hugoreasoning/status/1205900367290077192 …

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      Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning
      Today is the anniversary of George Washington’s death. How did he die? He caught a throat infection. Then his doctors decided to drain 2.5L of blood (2/3 of a gallon, about half his blood). Somehow he didn’t make it. Why would his doctors—the best available—do such a thing? (1/9) pic.twitter.com/o77BWpgJOk
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Dec 2019

      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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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Dec 2019

      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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        2. Jay‏ @OneFineJay 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Consider how long the physicians took to accept the germ theory of disease and ridiculed the invention of the microscope. Was it dogma, or a desire to protect their own industry? Who knows

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        2. BevfromNYC‏ @BevfromNYC 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          And this is always the example I use when someone says "But the experts say that...". My response "Well, medical experts thought bleeding people was the cure for diseases too."

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        3. Michael Biddle‏ @M_Biddle 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @BevfromNYC @baseballcrank

          But isn’t that countered with thousands of other examples where medical experts were correct?

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        1. john barnett‏ @jab399 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          still happening today with sugar and processed foods

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        1. Judge Smails‏ @JSmails 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Surgeons at Hopkins started wearing rubber gloves because one was dating a surgical nurse and didn't like the effects the harsh antibacterial agents had on her hands. She started wearing the gloves and the surgeons recognized the benefits over time. It thus became standard.

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        1. Laura Bishop‏ @LbbLaura 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Perfectionistic expectations that medicine shouldn't/can't make any mistakes reinforces our modern idea that death and disease can/should be prevented, if not for faulty, bad? practitioners. Yes, institutional bureaucracy bears some blame. And we need to be educated consumers 1/2

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        1. Laura Bishop‏ @LbbLaura 14 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          But, we also need to humbly recognize that ultimately, we don't control our health/death. Yes, medical experts/knowledge must be held accountable, but not to the point where they cannot be trusted because they failed to prevent/cure every disease/death. Just my opinion. 2/2

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        1. Fusilli Spock‏ @awstar11 14 Dec 2019
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          My father was encouraged to smoke at 8yo by my MD grandfather because it was thought that smoking would stunt his growth in the 1930s. My father ended up to be 6'7" and died of lung cancer in his early 70s.

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        1. The World Will Look Up And Shout "Save Us"‏ @AndIllWhisperNo 14 Dec 2019
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          We don't have to go that far back. Wasn't that long ago the scientific consensus on diet was lots of carbs and minimal fat. Even when all evidence showed otherwise, those who presented it were demonized. A lot of people made a lot of money off that "scientific consensus."

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