Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Data socialism

My wife recently accused me of being a fascist because I refused to watch a chick lit movie with her. In return, I called her a liberal.

Optimization is endless quibbling because the differences are so small. Optimization like is a train which departs on a lengthy journey but never leaves the platform. Optimization makes careers. Optimization leads to lots of publications. Lots. There is an infinite number of ethers and space-times to prove and disprove in healthcare sciences.

Science is a provisional assumption. Facts are supposed to change. Changing facts doesn’t mean that science is broken. It means that science is happening.

If we do not recognize the self-interest of researchers, data socialism, like other forms of socialism, is condemned to failure. This is what I think Longo and Drazen are warning us in their editorial.

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