Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "I accept scientific consensus — and you prob should too" video.

  1. A lot problematic here. 1. The decline in infant mortality is due far more to improved sanitation than to medical interventions. 2. Medical interventions themselves are often not the product of 'science', but of practice. Sure there might be some scientific studies after the fact of a procedure or process being developed, but praxis comes first. 3. Presentation ignores the whole problem of paradigm confirmation bias. Get a result that fails to confirm the dominant paradigm? It gets circular filed, or variables are added, or data is 'cleaned'. Gotta keep those research grants coming and contradicting the dominant paradigm doesn't do that. 4. You need to read Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 5. Risk-rewards always have to be considered. Cost-benefits too. Given what we know about Covid, a healthy person in their 20s doesn't need a Covid vaccination. That's not anti-vaccination...that's following the data. The problem with people who claim to be 'for' science is that they aren't for it when they disagree with its conclusions. They think, for example, that IQ tests are 'flawed' when study after study shows they measure something real and that higher IQ people have, on average, better outcomes on a whole range of things from earnings to likelihood of dying due to an accident, than lower IQ people. Likewise study after study shows that IQ is strongly, though not totally, inherited. Usually people who 'believe the science' and make a big deal about 'believing the science' -- the sorts with those platitude filled signs in their yards -- will reject the science here.
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