You don’t trust a doctor because the doctor is smart, or because the doctor is a member of a smart society. You trust the doctor because there are procedures ensuring that experiments were performed to validate these claims.
I’m sure Hippocrates was well smarter than the median modern-medicine doctor, but I’d take a second-quartile modern medicine doctor over Hippocrates any day of the week.
You don’t trust a doctor because the doctor is smart, or because the doctor is a member of a smart society. You trust the doctor because there are procedures ensuring that experiments were performed to validate these claims.
I’m sure Hippocrates was well smarter than the median modern-medicine doctor, but I’d take a second-quartile modern medicine doctor over Hippocrates any day of the week.
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