Summary Of Atul Gawande Mistrust Of Science

Quinton Wilson Mathew Goldberg Writing and Research Analysis of The Mistrust of Science The article analyzed in this paper is called the Mistrust of Science. The Mistrust of Science was written by Atul Gawande, published in the New Yorker June 10th, 2016. Gawande writes about how scientific thinking is viewed and expressed in our current era. As well as how society has changed in their ways of thinking and interpreting data presented. Throughout this paper, we will be exploring Gawande's arguments and addressing a deeper understanding and connection to the written article. Other ideas to be considered during this analysis include misinformation and how it’s handled, and how ideology for people has changed over the past couple of years, relating

Gawande states that we have a more scientific way of thinking nowadays which constantly has us analyzing the data given to us. Gawande then uses appeals to authority or ethos to start off his main argument. Gawande states “The great physicist Edwin Hubble, speaking at Caltech’s commencement in 1938, said a scientist has “a healthy skepticism, suspended judgement, and disciplined imagination”—not only about other people’s ideas but also about his or her own” (1). Gawande uses appeals to authority to help demonstrate that Gawande is not the only one who has observed this change in society. Gawande uses Edwin Hubble to show that they are a “great physicist”, someone who is smart, and has connecting points to Gawande's main argument. This helps set up Gawande’s argument and allows Gawande to try to prove real world examples of where scientific thinking has become normal for our society and how it has benefited us as a whole. Scientific thinking has been taught to us when we are little and embedded into how we interpret information in our modern times. Gawande goes on to explain how his argument about the change in thinking has applied to our world and its

Gawande explains using a metaphor how scientific thinking is similar to being powerful, emphasizing the importance of its way of thinking. Then prove how powerful scientific thinking is by showing the adverse effects that have come from it. Our lifespan has doubled, globally our resources have been improved and more knowledge about the universe we live in. Gawande cleverly demonstrated the effects of scientific thinking and how powerful it truly has become. While demonstrating this, Gawande has also shown that scientific thinking is embedded into how we think as a society today. Otherwise, the amazing consequences discussed earlier wouldn’t have been possible. Gawande goes on to prove that this way of thinking isn’t just for the highly intellectual people that exist in our society, but that everyone has developed this way of scientific analysis and thinking. Gawande goes on to talk about misinformation in our society and how people interpret it. People have a way of thinking that is completely unique in that people have to prove why what they believe is true and find out the true information that might be surrounded by false