michael_b comments on LW's take on nutrition? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michael_b 10 April 2015 07:14:43AM *  0 points [-]

They have very strong incentives (ie earning money and building a career and having patients) to pretend to be certain. People don't want to pay for honest but vague guesses.

I would expect consensus (or the lack thereof) is an important signaler for exposing this kind of bias?

Comment author: drethelin 10 April 2015 10:34:20PM 0 points [-]

Maybe? It's a lot safer to be certain if you're saying the same thing as the consensus. Then at worst you can say you had the same opinion as a lot of other providers.