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wissler on Aug 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Look at yourself objectively

I'm sure that Semmelweis's bumbling associates would have agreed with you. But the fact remains that empirically he was saving lives; there was more truth in Semmelweis's claims than in theirs, and it was a matter of life and death.

tptacek on Aug 27, 2012 [–]

That's obviously true, but I'm not sure it responds to either Aaron's point or mine.

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