Researching one’s own practice can overturn deeply held professional beliefs

Evidence

Natalie Grams, a physician, had her own private homeopathic practice for several years until, in the course of research for her own book, she realized the pharmaceutical ineffectiveness of homeopathy. As a result, she gave up her practice and became the figurehead of German homeopathy critics. She was repeatedly subjected to fierce, even personal attacks by her former colleagues. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 26

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Chris French’s arc (turned from believer to skeptic) and other conversion stories; a running theme of how people exit closed belief systems.

Related

• External challenges to justify beliefs can trigger belief transformation (similarity 0.80)