Kevin, I agree with this...Never believe your own Bullsh*t is the foundation of most competent management education and certainly all competent sales education. Scientists/doctors are no different. The issue comes with understanding what is BS...and the answer is "anything you think may be". Keeping that in mind is the crux of doing the best that can be done.
i only have one strong disagreement with your tome -- in my long years of observing and trying to understand, I have learned that the government virtually NEVER gets it right -- and if they do, it is only by accident. They are, uniformly, acting for their own purposes and not for your good or the good of the population/country as a whole. This does not mean that they have not convinced themselves they are acting in your interests "because they know better". But they uniformly invoke a parent/child motif (you are the child, incidentally) except that parents actually have their children's interests at heart -- in the end, the bureaucrats and the legislators (but especially the bureaucrats) ONLY have their own interests in mind. Rarely, they overlap with yours, but that is an accident in virtually every case.
I have followed you for a while. Originally it was because I was looking for a view on a subject that was contrary to the one I was developing via social media influencers. I wanted to hear something from outside the echo chamber.
Eventually you turned me off because of an attitude that seemed more focused on confrontation and seemed completely certain of your positions. Now, I find your difficulties have given you more humility so I'm following you again.
My goal is to try and form an opinion for myself and strive to remain open to changing my mind. I view "facts" as having probabilities and believe that they are often variable depending on the individual. Most things in life are in the grey zone. Black and white thinking leads to our current societal fracture.
Your current work is more helpful for forming opinions.
'Appeal to authority' is a logical fallacy. Perhaps a dose of logic and humility in science, and especially medical, education is a good place to start. One might think that the opioid crisis, Vioxx, and other such disasters - not to mention taking a manufacturer's (rushed) study on its own (insanely profitable) product with a big grain of salt - would offer a crack in the door to the recalcitrant members of the medical professional community.
I recall a mechanic saying years ago that he avoided doctors and hospitals at all costs, which sounded crazy at the time. For myself, I already questioned much, but after all this, I will never trust the medical profession again.
Kevin, I agree with this...Never believe your own Bullsh*t is the foundation of most competent management education and certainly all competent sales education. Scientists/doctors are no different. The issue comes with understanding what is BS...and the answer is "anything you think may be". Keeping that in mind is the crux of doing the best that can be done.
i only have one strong disagreement with your tome -- in my long years of observing and trying to understand, I have learned that the government virtually NEVER gets it right -- and if they do, it is only by accident. They are, uniformly, acting for their own purposes and not for your good or the good of the population/country as a whole. This does not mean that they have not convinced themselves they are acting in your interests "because they know better". But they uniformly invoke a parent/child motif (you are the child, incidentally) except that parents actually have their children's interests at heart -- in the end, the bureaucrats and the legislators (but especially the bureaucrats) ONLY have their own interests in mind. Rarely, they overlap with yours, but that is an accident in virtually every case.
I have followed you for a while. Originally it was because I was looking for a view on a subject that was contrary to the one I was developing via social media influencers. I wanted to hear something from outside the echo chamber.
Eventually you turned me off because of an attitude that seemed more focused on confrontation and seemed completely certain of your positions. Now, I find your difficulties have given you more humility so I'm following you again.
My goal is to try and form an opinion for myself and strive to remain open to changing my mind. I view "facts" as having probabilities and believe that they are often variable depending on the individual. Most things in life are in the grey zone. Black and white thinking leads to our current societal fracture.
Your current work is more helpful for forming opinions.
Are there schools one can achieve a degree in bureaucracy? Harvard, Yale, a Moscow University?
'Appeal to authority' is a logical fallacy. Perhaps a dose of logic and humility in science, and especially medical, education is a good place to start. One might think that the opioid crisis, Vioxx, and other such disasters - not to mention taking a manufacturer's (rushed) study on its own (insanely profitable) product with a big grain of salt - would offer a crack in the door to the recalcitrant members of the medical professional community.
I recall a mechanic saying years ago that he avoided doctors and hospitals at all costs, which sounded crazy at the time. For myself, I already questioned much, but after all this, I will never trust the medical profession again.
It'd be nice if there was some crowd-sourced effort of steelmanning that could integrate all the varied perspectives in their best forms.