> On 7 Aug 2020, at 20:33, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 2:11 PM Jason Resch <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > >> Only a fool would look to an imbecile and congenital liar such as Donald J > >> Trump for medacal advice. There will always be scientific contrarians > >> about anything but I look to the latest scientific consensus for my > >> medacal advice, and the more recent it is the more it says > >> hydroxychloroquine is worthless or even harmful in the treatment of > >> COVID-19. > > > If your first thought as to the efficacy of a particular medication is to > > point to what a particular politician said, > > Historically if you had bet that the exact opposite of what that particular > American politician had said was true then you would've won your bet far far > more often than you'd expect by random chance. However Induction is not > perfect so it can't give a guarantee of future success, but it's a pretty > damn good rule of thumb. > > > then I fear you may not be using the scientific method. > > I believe part of the scientific method is believing that what the consensus > of the scientific community says is far more likely to be closer to the truth > than what a right wing fascist president with a room temperature IQ (in > Centigrade) says.
The “consensus” argument makes local sense in practice, by default. But it is not part of science, which is based on systemic doubt. Then the consensus is that God is a person, and marijuana is a drug, I mean, typically, consensus in hot domain have to be interrogated even more, and doubly so in the art of curing people, where many different type of interest, pseudo-religious and lucrative, are mixed. A government can mandate the use of mask, like it can mandate a speed limit on the road, but it cannot forbid a product. It can only regulate it. Bruno > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3WoQ8mBkB2tmkjbO0pCDFvZ81uuOO6C-FEo5mXAutWQw%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3WoQ8mBkB2tmkjbO0pCDFvZ81uuOO6C-FEo5mXAutWQw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/EF84CEE3-CCDF-40B1-AD00-53A731350807%40ulb.ac.be.
