Science Free Science: How Bad Ideas Become Dogma

Here's 3 more Doctors sticking their noses in where they don't belong to repackage and sell self aggrandizing, anti-scienced, Behavorism. 

Let that sink in. 

Doctors. Life and Death. Last Ditch. Medicare and Medicaid. Your Money. Charlatans. Hucksters. Par for the course.

"we have a paper that was accepted to a journal, passed peer review, but somehow managed to be in the wrong field, tried to take ownership of a non issue and manages to misconstrue success as failure."

redstate

Lack of skepticism allows bad ideas to flourish.

By: Joliphant (Diary)  |  December 4th, 2015 at 03:28 AM  |  5

We are all aware of the bad ideas the left likes to peddle.  They range from gender is a social construct, babies aren’t alive until sometime after birth, paying people not to work will somehow motivate them to industriousness, businesses are evil and and exist to prevent people from employment, or my favorite you can waste money to make yourself wealthy. If you think about these concepts you can’t help but scratch your head and wonder how do they get started and how do they gain traction. I think I have had the  horror of seeing one of these trying to get its start.

Variations in mortality from legal intervention in the United States—1999 to 2013 is the rather bland title of what would seem to be at first glance  a report from the law enforcement community. It isn’t. It’s a paper by three physicians presented not as statistics but as findings about preventative medicine. Here we have start of the dominoes falling. You have authors who have gone completely outside of their realm of expertise and into another field entirely. If you accept the premise, you have accepted deaths due to law enforcement actions are a medical issue, and medical experts are the people qualified to solve the problem. In short the authors start by moving the goal posts to where they want them.

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Thank You Joliphant and Redstate.