I guess some scientific topics have some pretty good evidence and are hard to believe are extremely wrong (e.g. physics) given how much works so well that is based on it today, and then there are other scientific/medical areas that look scientific/medical without having the same robust evidence-base. I’d like to read a small overview meta analysis with some history of each field that claims (and is widely believed) to be scientific/medical, with discussion of some of its core ideas, and an evaluation of how sure we are that it is good and real in the way that a lot of physics is. I don’t want to name particular other scientific/medical areas to contrast, but I do have at least one prominently in my mind.
I guess some scientific topics have some pretty good evidence and are hard to believe are extremely wrong (e.g. physics) given how much works so well that is based on it today, and then there are other scientific/medical areas that look scientific/medical without having the same robust evidence-base. I’d like to read a small overview meta analysis with some history of each field that claims (and is widely believed) to be scientific/medical, with discussion of some of its core ideas, and an evaluation of how sure we are that it is good and real in the way that a lot of physics is. I don’t want to name particular other scientific/medical areas to contrast, but I do have at least one prominently in my mind.