Talking responsibly about medicine in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
A lot of what is currently being said about the future of medicine in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is irresponsible: it appears to be uttered without regard for whether it is true or false. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt argues that we should define and use the word “bullshit” as a techn...
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2019-10-01
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A lot of what is currently being said about the future of medicine in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is irresponsible: it appears to be uttered without regard for whether it is true or false. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt argues that we should define and use the word “bullshit” as a technical term to cover speech of this sort (Frankfurt, 2005).
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