Which drugs can be legally marketed or imported, which manufacturers can make drugs, etc, is decided by a monopoly.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @mrgunn
I think you’re talking about something more like clinical guidelines but written for laypeople, which is an exciting if daunting idea. The challenge is enormous.
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Replying to @anaisnein9 @mrgunn
Oh that is super hard, and I don’t think it’s necessarily needed. It’s reasonable to outsource medical decisions to professionals you trust.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @mrgunn
But I’m having to explain whom to trust and whom not as much! There isn’t a shortcut for that! I’m about to make a reliables Twitter list for my coworkers, who work in complex health comms and are still losing their balance p regularly. Idk how you ‘authorize the authorities’
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Replying to @anaisnein9 @mrgunn
You have more people doing the same job as you! And they’ll come to different conclusions! p l u r a l i s m.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @anaisnein9
What adds complexity here is how specialized parts of our lives have become. I had to defer knowing about whole swaths of life to become a domain expert in biomedical science. I have to trust that those people doing those things I don't know about are handling it.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
True! Specialization is fine & good. We need mechanisms besides object-level knowledge to evaluate trustworthiness. (Track records, journalism, social proof, and lawsuits are examples.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @anaisnein9
What I really want is to not need to track this stuff in domains I'm not interested in. I once relied on journalism and lawsuits to do this (never was much for social proof, myself), but now I have to learn which of those are doing a good job, because so many aren't.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
Well if there are enough people like you, there may be a market for *paid* analysis services!
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @mrgunn
with trickle-down and/or redistributive mechanisms to ensure people with no money for premium analysis still have access to reasonable quality information, one hopes
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @anaisnein9
The thing I want isn't specialized information services so much as a metaanalysis of which services, in domains I don't personally have expertise, are really delivering the goods.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
At some point this bottoms out in “either somebody has to make this their job or you gotta do it yourself or you roll the dice and take your chances”, right? What other options are there?
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