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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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
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."
But isn’t that countered with thousands of other examples where medical experts were correct?
still happening today with sugar and processed foods
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.
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
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
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.
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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