Thanks for the review. I came here looking for clues into how the medical community is responding to the book. When I read it, I thought Makary made a lot of good points about some very important medical oversights and mistakes that have been made, but I also came away feeling like the book may do more harm than good if it keeps people from trusting in science and the scientific process, in general. In actuality, the medical mistakes highlighted in the book are examples of what can go wrong when the scientific process is NOT rigorously followed, but I worry this book may diminish trust in medicine and it's leadership, which may also bleed into scientific trust more generally. That said, I do think it is important to acknowledge mistakes based on biases or faulty research and to learn from them. I just hope we can do this without "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" so to speak.
Thanks for the review. I came here looking for clues into how the medical community is responding to the book. When I read it, I thought Makary made a lot of good points about some very important medical oversights and mistakes that have been made, but I also came away feeling like the book may do more harm than good if it keeps people from trusting in science and the scientific process, in general. In actuality, the medical mistakes highlighted in the book are examples of what can go wrong when the scientific process is NOT rigorously followed, but I worry this book may diminish trust in medicine and it's leadership, which may also bleed into scientific trust more generally. That said, I do think it is important to acknowledge mistakes based on biases or faulty research and to learn from them. I just hope we can do this without "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" so to speak.