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[–]Hematomato 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

When Ignac Semmelweis suggested that doctors washing their hands in chlorinated water could reduce the rate of postnatal infections, they not only de-licensed him, they locked him in an insane asylum where he was beaten to death within a month.

Doctors don't like dissent.

[–]Kingdud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tell someone who says they "believe in the science" that science is as much a religion as Christianity and watch them lose their minds. But...it's very much true. Though modern science (post COVID, or certainly post DSM-V) is more like the cults in Waco, People's Temple, or Heaven's Gate. Which is...disturbing.

A lot of veterans getting out of combat arms in the military are finding that they have to do their own medical research in order to heal. When doctors make you worse instead of better, something is VERY wrong.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's really a matter of semantics.

The way I personally think of the word "science" is practically synonymous with "empiricism." Science is any form of knowledge that comes directly from sensory evidence, and is testable and repeatable.

But everyone has a subtly different definition of "science." And to a lot of people, the concept of science in their minds seems very close to "anything that someone credentialed as a scientist says to be true."

And when you define it that way, yeah, it drifts miles away from empiricism. It becomes prestige-based, and M.D.s and Ph.D.s basically become priests, and what you're left with does strongly resemble a religion.

[–]jerryk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What difference does it make? All doctors are quacks, we really don't understand the human body or mind well enough to "treat" them effectively, under any circumstances. Naturally, given this level of ignorance and incompetence, medical bureaucrats feel the need to establish some kind of standardization procedures to ensure that they aren't totally contradicting each other all the time, and thus showing to everyone just how ignorant and incompetent they all really are. So, they establish "standards" -- totally arbitrary procedures -- in order to create the illusion that they actually have some idea what they're doing, when, in fact, they have no idea at all what they are doing.

[–]Kingdud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Something I didn't understand for the longest time...the reason doctors want you to come in for routine checkups is that differential analysis is one of the only ways they have to know something is wrong. Sure, there are tests for some things, like the Flu, or strep. But when it comes to more complex issues? Is your blood pressure high, or is that normal for you. Is your body 1 degree hotter than normal, or do you always run hot? Etc, etc. Once I realized modern medicine was largely differential analysis...let's just say that was a horrifying thought.

I get paid nearly what doctors do, but I actually know what is going on and why in my job. Holy shit doctors are charging a lot of money for not having much in the way of answers.

[–]jerryk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bear in mind, my friend, that in past, there's no question whatsoever that doctors almost always did more harm than good, yet, it was still a highly respected profession! Disinformation is power, and, doctors always were, and still are, superb liars. That's what "bedside manner" is -- disinformation. I'm by no means convinced that doctors don't still, do, in general, more harm than good. I never go to the doctor, never take any medications of any type -- not even over the counter ones -- and, I'm never sick. Good diet and good exercise will keep you healthier than any doctor ever will.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ask for a double-blind study with a placebo? What are you the reincarnation of Mengele?

[–]Scolias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Info wars. Really.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Care to elaborate on your criticism?

[–]Scolias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I just feel like we can do better than anything operated by Alex Jones.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Perhaps, but then again I frequently share media from Paul Joseph Watson which gets a lot of positive attention here, who basically publishes alongside or under the umbrella of infowars. Not everything produced there is in bad taste, just like not all Fox news is. If we rule out Jones then we might as well rule out all of MSM too for the nonsense and lies they feed us so regularly.