Papa Georgio
Level 6 Valued Member
I'm all for challenging the establishment and questioning 'accepted beliefs' but I'm not okay with discouraging people from accepting scientifically-proven medical treatment in favour of unproven or even disproven remedies, whether you happen to be making millions of dollars or not.
I don't agree that all medical practice is "scientifically-proven" and that medical studies are even scientific. Medical studies are funded by people/organizations that are counting on certain result. If a particular result is obtained that isn't in the funder's best interest, then that study never gets published.
You don't have to believe me. Marcia Angell MD is a well-known, respected physician and long-time editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. She has said:
"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine."
I'm not saying you should believe anybody. What I'm suggesting is that people should start doing some of their own research and start making their own decisions for their healthcare instead of placing all of that power on an industry that's more concerned with profitable growth than curing disease.
JMO