(via Samantha Critchell of Chicago Sun-Times)
Review of James Lilek's Mommy Knows Worst : Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice. Medical recommendations from the 40's and 50s included "advice from the Chicago Board of Health in the 1920s to give children sunbaths -- and then cod oil baths."
Unlike in physics, in medicine the different roles played by theorists and empiricists are not clear-cut. Here, tthe empiricists in us draw statistical conclusions from studies, but it is the theorists in us that make the scientific inferences and generalizations. IMHO it's best to tame these theorists in us, lest we lost the public's credibility.
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