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• @katrani@elekk.xyz 2026-05-05 15:47

  @lapis@elekk.xyz Blind Spots by Marty Makary It's theoretically a book about times medicine as an institution got stuff wrong, and like. As far as I got none of the refutations or counter info he presents strikes me as wrong. But there's a lot of name-dropping (not just "Dr Whoever at University", but "my colleague Dr Whoever....") which feels odd. And he spends one chapter talking about how there was like a. Percent error or statistical significance calculation that was wrong in something a lot of the medical organizations just accepted. But he doesn't give us the calculations in the countering studies, so we have no presentation of why we should trust those over the first one besides his word. Then there's a chapter about how there's been a LOT of general changes since the 1950s, focused on how diet or antibiotic use has caused changes in our intestinal microbiomes and that causing a cascading effect.... but he mentions how diagnostic ratios for different stuff has changed, without making mention of diagnostic criteria or equipment being better...? I feel like that would be a significant part to at least footnote about. (Like, as an example not relevant here, "more kids have ADHD now!" is really more "we can diagnose ADHD more clearly now") Plus just some wording stuff that was making me feel weird for no real reason.

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