It’s not brain surgery vs rocket science

[Klaus]

Threat to validity: All the authors are neurosurgeons and hence biased.

[George K]

@klaus said in It’s not brain surgery vs rocket science:

Threat to validity: All the authors are BRITISH neurosurgeons and hence biased.

Even worse.

[Horace]

The pioneers of rocket science invented arrows or airplanes or explosions. The pioneers of brain surgery invented lobotomies. Who's smarter?

I bet we always considered the inventors of arrows, airplanes, explosions, and lobotomies to be geniuses, in their times. But one of those geniuses is not like the others.

[Copper]

222 years ago yesterday George Washington died

Surgeons bled him at least 4 times during the days before he died

[George K]

How Sky News is reporting it:

Yeah, because everyone is pretty much the same other than applying themselves is EXACTLY the reason rockets don't blow up and people don't bleed to death in the OR.

[Horace]

I thought IQ doesn't matter?

[Jolly]

Well, "merit" is a four letter word.

[Aqua's Sister]

So, if I work hard enuff, I can be a supermodel?

[bachophile]

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/375/bmj-2021-067883.full.pdf

For the full submission.

[jon-nyc]

Who TF funded that study?

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in It’s not brain surgery vs rocket science:

Who TF funded that study?

Fucking lazy NYers.