16 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. Preventative surgery , what a novel idea. I would have suggested she opt for about a dozen more tests before undergoing such radical surgery.

    1. It would seem there might have been a more … cautious … first step, such as increased screening frequencies? Their lives. Their decisions. But don’t get weepy about it after you’ve discovered the science wasn’t really settled. But, because some celebrities had the proactive surgery done … well … celebrities DO know best.

  2. it’s just amazing how many people actually believe our “science” has advanced that much….

  3. As a daughter of — I really feel for these women…
    if anything about science is “settled”, it isn’t science.

  4. Not the brightest bunch…
    Why would you not get 1,2 or 3 or half a dozen more diffrent opinions before you cut your body up like that..?? Thats simply madness.

    FYI: ANY Professional needs only 70-80% on their exams. Taking Medical advice, even so called genetic needs to be assessed BIG time.

    I have learned that it pays to self advocate. Had I not, back in the mid eighties, I’d be a leg short today. Infected upper right leg with “seratia” (a bone loving bug known only in hospitals…and my phisyatrist – a “whole body” Dr. puts me on Tetracyline and ignores the puss seeping out of my knee). I had fallen rock climbing – 55′, hit a tree branch on the way down that likely saved my life. Many fractures including a compound Femur… I knew this wasnt your normal “skin based infection” and rove my powered wheelchair to the INfectious Disease clinic. Ottawa Gen. I got their attntion in a heartbeat. Suffice to say that battle with seratia took 4 months to clear up with a couple of major surgeries thrown in only to look after the infection, never mind the break in my femur.

    Had “I not takent the initiative” (as per my ortho surgeon), I would have in quick fashion, lost my leg…up to the hip.

    TRUST but Damned well verify.

    2. In instrumentation trade school the minimum pass mark was 70%. My buddy’s M.D. sister-in-law laughed at that. She said she only had to get more than 50% in medical school.

  5. With the replication crisis in scientific research being what it is, the people that do this are uninformed, put too much faith in “science” or are just nuts.
    It seems a lot of research grants are like a make work project.
    Look busy.

  7. On a brighter (evolving science) note: “Astronomers are wondering whether Orion’s shoulder will soon explode”.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/betelgeuse-dimming-1.5407038
    Betelgeuse, 14,000 times more luminous than our sun, has dimmed by a factor of about two since October. It is “the dimmest it’s been observed ever, based on the data we have”. It may be about to go supernova:

    “when Betelgeuse goes supernova, astronomers estimate it will be as bright as the full moon and visible even during the day”.

    “Astronomers estimate this will happen relatively soon — in astronomical terms anyway. It could be today, tomorrow or 100,000 years from now.”
    Maybe if you say Betelgeuse three times it will appear (in the daytime sky). I know that if you say climate emergency 3,000,000 times it can lead to a collective hallucination.

    1. Similar prognostications have been made about the primary star of the Eta Carinae pair.

      It’s really unfair to scoff at astronomers about their forecasts. Supernovae are rare events and it’s not always clear which stars might explode. One example was the star that became supernova SN 1987-A. There was nothing particularly extraordinary about it and few clues that something so spectacular might happen.

      Don’t forget that astronomy is a relatively new science. For most of history, observations were made using the naked eye, mathematics that could be compared to what schoolchildren learn, and no computers or even slide rules. Much of what we understand about the cosmos also quite new. Many scientists didn’t consider galaxies to be independent entities.

  8. I have no quarrel with astronomers. What they have deduced through observation, and mathematical theories like relativity, is astronomical. I am less enamoured with those who study the atmospheric sciences.

  9. I gotta say I really feel for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt here. Bad science, bad result, bad badness. I’m very sad.

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