Anonymous ID: 842541 May 2, 2020, 8:42 p.m. No.9007281   🗄️.is 🔗kun

One topic that has come up during coronachan has been the tendency of "medical professionals" to simply follow accepted protocols rather than actually even trying to think. This is not really a new problem, but it may be that one benefit of suffering through this "scare event" is that the issue becomes noticeable for some who might never have given it a thought.

 

This reminds me of an interesting and illuminating mini-book that deals with the same issue as it arises in the broader world of "science". You can get it all (mostly) here:

https://corruption-of-science.blogspot.com/

The general thrust of the argument seems compelling to me, and it is that "scientists" in general are not even "trying" to grasp objective truth but simply to adhere to professional standards: you run some tests using accepted procedures, do some analyses using accepted procedures, and submit your article for publication via peer review. On the standard narrative, doing such things is supposed to be valuable because it "tracks the truth" ceteris paribus. But the author contends that no one even cares anymore. The book is focused more directly on science in the abstract as opposed to "applied science" like "medicine", but it is easy to think how it could be expanded: what seems increasingly absent from the practice of many "medical caregivers" is any attempt to engage with the personal narrative of the patient, which is likely to provide clues regarding what is really going on.