Atul Gawande
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Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer and public health researcher, born in Brooklyn in 1965.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 5 November 1965, Brooklyn, New York (opens wiqqi.app)
- Roles: Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Professor of the Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of… (opens wiqqi.app)
- Government: Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID, January 2022 to January 2025 (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @Atul_Gawande (opens x.com)
“A terrible loss. She was the world's premiere infectious disease reporter -- an icon for all of us in public health science and journalism alike.”
- Site: atulgawande.com (opens atulgawande.com)
- Elsewhere: The New Yorker (opens www.newyorker.com)
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21 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Science is a commitment to systematic thinking through testing and observation, not a major or a career (opens korrents.com)
“Science is not a major or a career. It is a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, an allegiance to a way of building knowledge and explaining the universe through testing and factual observation.”
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Rebutting bad science does not work and commonly backfires (opens korrents.com)
“The evidence is that rebutting bad science doesn’t work; in fact, it commonly backfires.”
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Asserting the facts of good science, with the narrative that explains them, works where rebuttal may not (opens korrents.com)
“Rebutting bad science may not be effective, but asserting the true facts of good science is. And including the narrative that explains them is even better.”
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Science is a commitment to systematic thinking through testing and observation, not a major or a career (opens korrents.com)