Are you sure this is right? Hasn’t Robin Hanson taught us that we can’t always trust the medical profession’s claims about how useful the medical profession is.
we can’t always trust the medical profession’s claims about how useful the medical profession is.
One thing that’s much more trustworthy than average is the claim: “Early detected disease X? We can totally fix that!” It’s a falsifiable claim.
Claims that are deeply tied to statistics, statistical significance, fuzzy definitions, subtle effects, or other things are more likely to be the wrong ones.
Are you sure this is right? Hasn’t Robin Hanson taught us that we can’t always trust the medical profession’s claims about how useful the medical profession is.
One thing that’s much more trustworthy than average is the claim: “Early detected disease X? We can totally fix that!” It’s a falsifiable claim.
Claims that are deeply tied to statistics, statistical significance, fuzzy definitions, subtle effects, or other things are more likely to be the wrong ones.