Video from TED on wisdom. Beware of the overtly eager statistician or economist who ignores all domain knowledge for complicated mathematical engineering.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
conflicts of interest and ethics
In regards to the housing bubble ...
“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,” he says. “They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”
when someone talks about ethical problems in medicine -- lets please keep the other utterly corrupt profession in mind (*cough* journalists *cough* lawyers *cough*). In comparison, physicians are saints.
“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,” he says. “They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”
when someone talks about ethical problems in medicine -- lets please keep the other utterly corrupt profession in mind (*cough* journalists *cough* lawyers *cough*). In comparison, physicians are saints.
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