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10 June 2016

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From one piece The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker) 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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How you think matters even more than what you think

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Even more than what you think, how you think matters.

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The virtues of science live far more in the community than in the individual scientist

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Knowledge and the virtues of the scientific orientation live far more in the community than the individual.

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Pseudoscience is the form of science without the substance

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Pseudoscience is the form of science without the substance.

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Asserting the facts of good science, with the narrative that explains them, works where rebuttal may not

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Rebutting bad science may not be effective, but asserting the true facts of good science is. And including the narrative that explains them is even better.

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Rebutting bad science does not work and commonly backfires

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The evidence is that rebutting bad science doesn’t work; in fact, it commonly backfires.

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Science is a commitment to systematic thinking through testing and observation, not a major or a career

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Science is not a major or a career. It is a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, an allegiance to a way of building knowledge and explaining the universe through testing and factual observation.

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26 May 2011

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From one piece Cowboys and Pit Crews (Harvard Medical School commencement address, The New Yorker) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Medicine trains and pays doctors to be cowboys when patients need pit crews

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We train, hire, and pay doctors to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews people need.

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Medicine's complexity has exceeded the individual capabilities of doctors

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These are not the cause of their unease, however. They are symptoms of a deeper condition—which is the reality that medicine’s complexity has exceeded our individual capabilities as doctors.

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