out of the basement / radiation medicine

Frame 122: evidence-based medicine and other fairy tales I used to believe in. Can I buy magic beans with Venmo?


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"If we are to have any hope of advancing rational beliefs against the riptide of myside bias, primitive intuitions, and mythological thinking, we must safeguard the credibility of these institutions. Experts such as public health officials should be prepared to show their work rather than deliver pronouncements ex cathedra.

Fallibility should be acknowledged: we all start out ignorant about everything, and whenever changing evidence calls for changing advice, that should be touted as a readiness to learn rather than stifled as a concession of weakness."

- Reason To Believe, January 2023

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out of the basement / radiation medicineBy Jason Beckta, MD, PhD

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