Memes in the Watson category “/health and fitness/sports medicine”

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How Physicians Were Once Like Today's Economists

The moral game of blame attribution is only one subtype of misattribution arbitrage. For example, epidemiologists estimate that it was not until 1905 that you were better off going to a physician. (Ignaz Semelweiss noticed that doctors doubled the mortality rate of mothers at delivery.) The role of the physician…

Dec 24, 2013 1 1

academic rigour
economics
history
medical science

The Scientific Method is About the "Elementary"

When we think of the scientific method, we tend to think of an experimenter in his laboratory, probably holding a test tube and wearing a white coat, who follows a series of steps that runs something like this: make some observations about a phenomenon; create a hypothesis to explain those observations; design an…

Mar 23, 2013 1

mindfulness
scientific method