NancyLebovitz comments on "Is Science Broken?" is underspecified - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 August 2016 04:50:13PM 2 points [-]

Now that I'm thinking about it, psychological papers probably have more effect in the LW-sphere than in the world generally. Are you counting nutrition as part of medicine?

Comment author: Lumifer 12 August 2016 07:35:49PM 1 point [-]

Nutrition is particularly bad and sits at the edge of medicine, I'd say.

Comment author: Val 12 August 2016 10:32:09PM 2 points [-]

Parenting might be even worse, with plenty of contradictions between self-proclaimed experts, one claiming something is very important to do, the other claiming you must never do it under any circumstances.