@ringo

Interesting the authors were medical doctors!

Those guys had knowledge whereas most of our medical doctors today are just really good at memorising algorithms after somehow skating by through organic chemistry and stats for beginners.

@Andre @ringo That was way back before people learned everything.🙄

@pamby1
What do you mean?
We don't know everything and it is still possible to do ones job correctly with all the proper knowledge required.
@Andre @ringo

@rastinza @Andre @ringo I just mean that it's my impression that some scientists today are not open to new information & just about stroke out if someone's opinion deviates from what a
"consensus of scientists" says is fact. As if democracy, not the scientific method, determines facts.

@pamby1
The scientific method is, in fact, based on consensus.
While a black swan observation does indicate that the theory that all swans are white might be wrong, the single observation is not enough to disprove an affirmed and working theory.
@Andre @ringo

@pamby1
Then again, it's also true some people are not open to new information, but I don't think this is one of the main problems of the scientific community at the moment.
@Andre @ringo

@rastinza @Andre @ringo I think that depends on the subject you're debating. A term I think is annoying is "settled science". Even I, who can't argue the finer points of the covid vaccines or climate change know that "settled science" is bs. When you say "97% of scientists say that climate change in man's fault" people tend to then take that as fact & call it "settled science" while silencing the scientists who disagree with how the info collected is interpreted.

if we didn't silence the dissenters we might not have consensus 😉

@thatguyoverthere
You can look at other fields of science and clearly see that in many cases no wide consensus is available.
Just have a glimpse into theoretical physics, put together in a room someone supporting quantum mechanics and someone else supporting relativity and see who's the one coming out alive.
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