Comment by jmpeax
3 years ago
Science is also a weak-link problem. Wakefield's paper on MMR vaccine and autism is a demonstration of the damage low-end outliers in science can do.
3 years ago
Science is also a weak-link problem. Wakefield's paper on MMR vaccine and autism is a demonstration of the damage low-end outliers in science can do.
I would say, in this author's phrasing, that knowledge generation is a strong link problem and knowledge consumption is a weak link problem.
You can find scientists engaged in addressing both, so I don't think the strong-link only approach would work. I like the author's model but I don't quite agree with the conclusions they draw from it.
He also misunderstands disease care. If there were no gatekeepers, medical Care would be dominated by worse doctors than we have now.
I think we can summarize it as a false dichotomy.
Medicine is a weak-link problem. Outliers on the far end kill people.