Institutional resistance delayed publication of a correct clinical observation by thirteen years.
Evidence
First: the relationship between clinical observation and scientific revolution is mediated by institutional resistance. Felitti saw what he saw in 1985. The ACE Study was published in 1998. Thirteen years separated the observation from the publication, and those thirteen years were years of journal rejections, conference hostility, and professional isolation. The observation was correct the entire time. The institution required a sample of 17,337 patients, a collaborator at the CDC, and a statistics-armed epidemiological methodology before it was willing to hear what a single attentive physician had seen in his obesity clinic. — , The Rod and the Child, 9524
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the series’ broader theme of how science and medicine resist acknowledging the harms of childhood corporal punishment. — connects to: Attentive observation over decades can anticipate findings later confirmed by meta-analyses and neuroimaging. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8853; The administrative cribbing of reports determined which event readings became evidence
Related
- Attentive observation over decades can anticipate findings later confirmed by meta-analyses and neuroimaging. (similarity 0.82)
- Researchers on corporal punishment face organized institutional resistance (similarity 0.80)