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Atul Gawande
(5 Nov 1965 - )
American surgeon, public health scientist and writer , at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He also joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1998. In his books, he has written about the flaws in the U.S. health care system. His best-selling books include Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Science Quotes by Atul Gawande (1 quote)
Science’s defenders have identified five hallmark moves of pseudoscientists. They argue that the scientific consensus emerges from a conspiracy to suppress dissenting views. They produce fake experts, who have views contrary to established knowledge but do not actually have a credible scientific track record. They cherry-pick the data and papers that challenge the dominant view as a means of discrediting an entire field. They deploy false analogies and other logical fallacies. And they set impossible expectations of research: when scientists produce one level of certainty, the pseudoscientists insist they achieve another.
— Atul Gawande
In Commencement Address at the California Institute of Technology (10 Jun 2016). Published on the website of The New Yorker (10 Jun 2016).
See also:
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Atul Gawande.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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