Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy by Michael J. Thompson

Author:Michael J. Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633884755
Publisher: Prometheus Books

While there are famous adoption studies and there are famous twin studies, these are separate studies. The famous adoption studies did not study adopted away twins. I once heard the Department Chair of a major university Psychiatry Department make the same mistake in a seminar, and when challenged about it he, and the entire room of biological psychiatrists, stood by the claim. Be careful of the echo chamber in your field.60

Every scientific field, as inevitable in any institution, features its echo chambers, sometimes known as “epistemological communities.”61 Physicians Michael Joyner, Nigel Paneth, and John Ioannidis found that $15 billion of the $26 billion NIH extramural funding was linked to the search terms: gene, genome, stem cells, or regenerative medicine—but yielded little in worthwhile results.62 One wonders if several decades hence this enterprise will be viewed as a Western-style Lysenkoist folly, where the weight of both corporate and enlisted state power expensively sustain a dead-end research program because it tickled the egoistic fancies and social agendas of the funders.63

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