(February 21, 2017 at 9:08 am)Sal Wrote:(February 21, 2017 at 8:58 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: No, but if a major portion of those whose votes count in deciding who gets to operate have a long history of recognizing any self-styled surgeon as a genuine surgeon, then "Only surgeons should perform surgery" offers very little assurance that any standard of surgery would actually exist when only "surgeons" perform surgery.
I get the feeling people are too bogged down in the same entrapment democratic voting is in, where anyone can put into a electorate position regardless of qualifications - do you actually believe this is the case in any scientific field?
That may not be the case in what scientists consider the scientific field. But in this great country of ours it is not the word of scientist that the ruling party and its supporters turn to in defining what is science and who is a scientist. You have to overcome the fact that voters who has no clue what is science gets to define what is science.
