Quote of the Day | 0529
the thing that has helped me empathise with and try to argue in a friendly and helpful way with bad reasoning and the people who engage in it, has been entirely from the real, practical work. In medicine you come across so many difficult and conflicted situations of people dong things against their own best interests or against their own stated priorities, and you get so many concessions being made to practicality by doctors, health care systems and health care professionals. The thing that’s probably most informed my strategies and approaches for dealing with irrationality has all been from the practical world of medicine, of the uneasy accord between practicality and ideal, or the way that we all basically fight our fundamentally dysfunctional personalities to do something useful with our lives.
Ben Goldacre, ‘My philopsophy’
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