• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    9 months ago

    Problem here is the “appeal to authority” fallacy. Your brush is simply too big.

    Yes when a vast majority of the medical community at many levels achieves hard-debated, critically vetted consensus, awesome, we can generally make that bet, and someone who graduated from “school of hard knocks” would be a lunatic to disagree because they wouldn’t have any grounds to do so.

    But unfortunately what’s also true and rational, is that medical professionals are highly fallible, and we have a problem of credentialism where we’re inclined to trust anybody in a labcoat with a medical degree.

    Turning everybody into zombies? No. (Although I love Resident Evil lmao), but I wouldn’t blame someone who’s gut reaction was “Wait, are we being used for free product testing?” Because the privatized medical community is rife with profiteering skullduggery and villainy, if not simply dangerous incompetence.

    Yes, trust research and doctors, but also don’t do so blindly.

    https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      Yes, medical professionals are highly fallible.

      But the average non-medically-schooled individual will be even more. So you should listen even less to them.