Yes. My point was that disproportionate channeling of optimism isn’t something specific to medicine (let alone to evidence-based medicine).
EDIT: Hmm, I guess I originally took “disproportionally” to mean “compared to how much other things channel optimism” whereas it’d make more sense to interpret it as “compared to how much medicine channels pessimism”.
Look at Feynman’s analysis. I’d say this is a good example of disproportionate channeling of optimism.
Yes. My point was that disproportionate channeling of optimism isn’t something specific to medicine (let alone to evidence-based medicine).
EDIT: Hmm, I guess I originally took “disproportionally” to mean “compared to how much other things channel optimism” whereas it’d make more sense to interpret it as “compared to how much medicine channels pessimism”.