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Controlled experiments show doctors dismissing evidence due to ideology - C C - Feb 10, 2023
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/controlled-experiments-show-mds-dismissing-evidence-due-to-ideology/
INTRO: It's no secret that ideology is one of the factors that influences which evidence people will accept. But it was a bit of a surprise that ideology could dominate decision-making in the face of a pandemic that has killed over a million people in the US. Yet a large number of studies have shown that stances on COVID vaccination and death rates, among other things, show a clear partisan divide.
And it's not just the general public having issues. We'd like to think people like doctors would carefully evaluate evidence before making treatment decisions, yet a correlation between voting patterns and ivermectin prescriptions suggests that they don't.
Of course, a correlation at that sort of population level leaves a lot of unanswered questions about what's going on. A study this week tries to fill in some of those blanks by performing controlled experiments with a set of MDs. The work clearly shows how ideology clouds professional judgments even when it comes to reading the results of a scientific study... (MORE - details)
RE: Controlled experiments show doctors dismissing evidence due to ideology - confused2 - Feb 11, 2023
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Quote:If we're examining the Shelf of Republican Answers, it can be found somewhere inbetween "too much regulation of the medical industry" and "drink colloidal silver."