Medical Schools Should Teach Sophistry

The Lesson of RFK Jr. is that we discount Ethos at Our Own Peril

If there are two dentists in your small town, do you visit the one with the perfect teeth or the one with rotten teeth? On the assumption that dentists don’t self-operate, the riddle goes, you should prefer the dentist with the rotten teeth.

Similarly, there’s an old saw that “all shoemakers go barefoot.” Why? One reason is that they’re dispensing their …