#iatrogenics

[apesoformythoughts]

«You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it. Post-Enlightenment science, and its daughter superstar science, were lucky to have done well in (linear) physics, chemistry, and engineering. But at some point we need to give up on elegance to focus on something that was given short shrift for a very long time: the maps showing what current knowledge and current methods do not do for us; and a rigorous study of generalized scientific iatrogenics, what harm can be caused by science (or, better, an exposition of what harm has been done by science).» 

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “On Robustness and Fragility”

[pencilrecords]

[apocalypticink]

01000000.

If things get real bad,

You can give yourself to them,

Accept their treatments.

But you'll get no say in them

And might not like the results.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Top 5 creepy Indiana places

1) The “Hell is Real” sign on I-65

2) The beach at Indiana Dunes at night

3) The Story Inn in Nashville

4) The town of Santa Claus during the summer when it feels weird and out of place

5) Bluespring Caverns

[azure-emily]

HOT: Political Iatrogenics: Why Socialism Doesn’t Work

[taoistoutlaw]

Iatrogenics #4

The fallacy of accepting that happiness and peace are the goals of individual experience.

[taoistoutlaw]

Iatrogenics #2

Mistaking solidity of a method of thinking or reasoning for the soundness of its method.

[a-path-beyond84]

Consider the need to "do something" through an illustrative example.  In the 1930s, 389 children were presented to New York City doctors; 174 of them were recommended tonsillectomies.  The remaining 215 children were again presented to doctors, and 99 were said to need the surgery.  When the remaining 116 children were shown to yet a third set of doctors, 52 were recommended for the surgery.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile