Forbes op-ed tells you to “stop thinking for yourself.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/30/you-must-not-do-your-own-research-when-it-comes-to-science/#3a9b1025535e
Tag: Science
The Atlantic reports “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”
This was published in 2010 but the findings and outcomes are still relevant. Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their…
The Spotlight reports “Fast Science and the Philosophy of Science”
We are living through one of the strangest and most anxiety-provoking times that most of us can remember—in lockdown, separated from friends, lovers, colleagues, work, extended family, and in some cases immediate family, to slow the spread of this new virus, SARS-CoV-2. The threat of this virus, and the effectiveness and harms of the social…
Medical Xpress reports “Coronavirus: why it’s dangerous to blindly ‘follow the science’ when there’s no consensus yet”
In the face of the virus emergency, research standards have been relaxed to encourage faster publication and mistakes become inevitable. This is risky. Ultimately, if expert advice on the pandemic turns out to be wrong, it will have dire consequences for how reliable scientific evidence is treated in other policy areas, such as climate change. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-coronavirus-dangerous-blindly-science-consensus.html
Washington Times reports “Scientists long ago exhausted their COVID-19 capital”
Salt, meet grain. Scientists — and that’s “scientists” buttressed between quotation marks — have long ago revealed themselves as factually challenged, devastatingly single-minded, even politically motivated on this whole coronavirus matter. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/7/scientists-long-ago-exhausted-their-covid-19-capit/
Rabbi on PJ Media: “The COVID-19 ‘Science’ Is Starting to Scare Me”
As a rabbi, I have always looked at patterns and historical repetitions, and I have to admit… I am starting to get truly frightened. Not of coronavirus, earthquakes, or an increase in crime. I am starting to get scared of “science”. https://pjmedia.com/culture/rabbi-michael-barclay/2020/05/21/science-is-starting-to-scare-me-n412181
Scientific American reports “Shortcuts in COVID-19 Drug Research Could Do Long-Term Harm, Bioethicists Worry”
Compassionate use of experimental medicine needs to coexist with scientific rigor to help patients, researchers write in the journal Science Does a widespread medical emergency justify speedier, and sometimes less rigorous, ways to test treatments and evaluate results? Doctors and patients urgently need to get their hands on drugs for the COVID-19 pandemic.But bioethicists Jonathan Kimmelman…