"Dr. Google". Sigh.
Yet another person, elsewhere, ridiculed the use of 'Dr. Google' as a means of getting information.
A very informed person replied with a quote (source wasn't given):
"It’s also a matter of context and quality control. Advanced training in science is not so much about learning a body of information, although that is certainly important.
It is far more about learning the scientific method, learning how to do science. It involves learning to learn, how to do research, how to evaluate the quality of research, and, most importantly, how to put the results of new studies into the context of existing knowledge.
There’s a reason it takes many years to learn these skills; they’re difficult and require a lot of work to acquire. There is no shortcut, either, not even the University of Google.
True, there is a difference in medicine, specifically that it is more necessary to learn a large quantity of rote information. Medicine is not science, and most physicians are not scientists (I realize I get into trouble for pointing out this simple fact), but medicine should be science-based."
A very informed person replied with a quote (source wasn't given):
"It’s also a matter of context and quality control. Advanced training in science is not so much about learning a body of information, although that is certainly important.
It is far more about learning the scientific method, learning how to do science. It involves learning to learn, how to do research, how to evaluate the quality of research, and, most importantly, how to put the results of new studies into the context of existing knowledge.
There’s a reason it takes many years to learn these skills; they’re difficult and require a lot of work to acquire. There is no shortcut, either, not even the University of Google.
True, there is a difference in medicine, specifically that it is more necessary to learn a large quantity of rote information. Medicine is not science, and most physicians are not scientists (I realize I get into trouble for pointing out this simple fact), but medicine should be science-based."
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