i just remembered the time i got reprimanded for tearing apart a shoddy ‘scientific’ journal.
we were supposed to be critiquing these random medical studies as an exercise in critical thinking and adapting knowledge in healthcare. The study I was assigned looked like it was put through google translate and was just... so not up to standards for what should be in any scientific study, let alone one in the medical world- and i was pulled aside and told not to be so harsh. Basically told not to critique, despite the wording and intention of the original assignment.
I’m remembering this again while thinking about the dangers of zero standards/professionalism in science, in healthcare, and how this little moment -which i thought was just idiosyncratic of this island- might actually be microcosm to the current world.
And that’s terrifying.