
A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 2]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The Base Problem Is, Medicine Wants to Have the Authority of Science
The idea that medicine is a case based business, where it's just like, oh, i've seen a case like that before. That's what, in practice, better practitioners end up doing. The base problem is, medicine wants to have the authority of science. It needs to find a way to do that. And so instead, you know, they're searching for a sort of scientific certainty,. They think they find that in the statistics of clinical trials and things like this. I think there's a rule, if you need the pea value, or if you need statistical result, ot side, ye.
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