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by fr33d0m_ 1601 days ago
So how do you think this gets solved? What do you think some of the root causes are?

Semi-related, I was reading about the history of some of the "US greatest universities"; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. were actually Christian Universities? Wasn't even Cambridge founded in the 1200's have similar history?

https://www.quora.com/When-did-Harvard-College-stop-being-a-...

I'm not sure of the complete validity, but it's an interesting perspective for sure.

I even remember reading Einstein working alongside Father Lemaitre, a Belgian Catholic priest (Founder of Big Bang Theory) on some groundbreaking work?

I've always joked that maybe G-d gave us the computer as he felt pity on us for it took 4000 years for man to calculate several hundred digits of Pi, and who knows how many great minds dedicated to hand calculating only a more "perfect circle". Didn't even Archimedes die calculating Pi?

"Nōlī turbāre circulōs meōs!" a Latin phrase, "Do not disturb my circles!". It is said to have been uttered by Archimedes—in reference to a geometric figure he had outlined on the sand—when he was confronted by a Roman soldier during the Siege of Syracuse prior to being killed.

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This is an incoherent reply that has practically nothing to do with this thread.
The root causes are scientists are experts in operating tools, just like many programmers can write code, it doesnt mean they understand the process.

The medical profession is largely still the snake oil industry it was hundreds of years ago, and Govt legislation enables their monopoly.

I have as little to do with the NHS as possible because these so called experts are experts in minutiae and not the big picture. They prescribe what they have been taught. The Govt/NHS also limits a GP's prescribing ability so private healthcare should be the gold standard not a communist era make work scheme like the NHS.

You try getting a doctor to explain their thinking, most will not, and when you challenge them they go all jihad on you, in a western country of all places!

This just demonstrates cognitive dissonance in what they have been taught, but any country or institution or individual who believes in sky faeries just shows humans can hold some diametrically opposed beliefs which are irrational and should be cause to be struck off any so called professional register!