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Many men who don't consider themselves gay also, predictably, do not consider themselves to be participating in high-risk behavior. But even among openly gay men who know they are carriers of HIV, there is increasing carelessness. In a recent U.S. study, Dr. Kenneth Mayer, an infectious-diseases expert at the Miriam Hospital and professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found that nearly half (45%) of the 201 HIV-positive men surveyed were high-risk transmitters: among them, the most likely to transmit HIV to partners were young men who drank heavily (more...
...when numbers are assigned to subjective experience (e.g., "my discomfort level is now three out of 10") and plugged into an algebraic formula, they produce "rational" or "evidence-based" conclusions, which suddenly have the ring of scientific truth. As far as the evidence-based movement is concerned, heeding mere "expert opinion," from even the most successful clinician, would be akin to taking the word of a bearded man with a wand...
...tell, faith in expert opinion is how medical students, residents and even full-blown docs do much of their learning - mostly just trusting a few great doctors who teach. I know enough math to know that neither my colleagues nor I really know statistics. Not one orthopedist nor one neurosurgeon in my acquaintance really understands the math used in statistical papers. They learn by faith in somebody else's statistics, by trust in the reputation of an individual, or journal or university...
...there is always a point in decision-making at which reason fails (funny enough, this was actually proven, mathematically, by the 25-year-old logician Kurt Godel). Ultimately, without absolute evidence, decisions must still be made - the inescapable truth is that in the end, we all trust one expert or another...
...million raised collectively by Polis and his opponents reflects contemporary campaign inflation, says Kareem Crayton, associate professor of law and politics and a congressional elections expert at the University of Southern California. "It's a sign that the cost of running federal campaigns is skyrocketing and not just at the presidential level...