Health, Alternatives

To what extent are people in positions of authority free of their personal agendas about what is best for the rest of us? Does it matter?




Riddled as the modern world is with craziness we do at least have the model of scientific thinking - that is, have a theory, test it, refine it and one day replace it with a theory that coheres better with the latest findings. The final arbiter is beyond the human mind. Well as beyond as one can get. The findings of science are available to all to check out and verfiy. Verification isn't easy. With regards to the human body/mind verification is tricky indeed.

As managers take over the medical world, will it be more or less objectively based than it is now - will the agendas they bring be better or worse?

Homeopathy has not survived, as far as I know, the rigors of double blind cross over trials and yet we go on using it - well some of us do.

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities." --Voltaire (1694-1778)

We need to value objectivity more than we do - we need to stop the corporate take over of the medical world. There is enough absurdity already.

The everybody take statin madness is so patently nuts but........!! Well for me it is. Maybe it's more nuts than homeopathy. The latter is at least harmless. That's why it did so well originally back when Haneman (sp) invented it. Back then my colleagues were poisoning folk with mercury and arsenic.

Greed, power, control and status - these are always polluting the waters. But so is agenda pumping - here particular attitudes and beliefs are valued more than what is so. Agenda pumping is all over the show in the 'health' world as is blind and dogged support for the status quo, orthodoxy, even when the evidence is against it.

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There is a demand from people for objective knowledge - what works doc? Prove it. There is also a demand for the mysterious, the healer, the unorthodox remedies, even the slighly 'weird' seems to have appeal. Proof isn't the issue here - procalmation and an unquestioning acquiesence are.

How is any human being to know what is best in the above strange world?