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I have to laugh at your commentary regarding health and health care. Perhaps you are not aware of a book published in January – DEATH BY MEDICINE. Five MDs and PhDs, using only peer reviewed literation documented that the leading cause of death in the United States is being a patient of conventional medical care.
By a wide margin.
So, before you try to defend convention which reflects economic bias far more than it reflects scientific validation – be clear on your intention.
Most of our health care delivery system is inadequately trained on nutritional and biophysics oriented therapies. They have, as the analogy goes, one tool in their toolbox – pharmaceutical intervention.
We tolerate that for only one reason – the distortion of free market enterprise that would otherwise look to allocate capital to the most efficient and effective uses.
Those who defend conventional medicine and conventional health care are the ones blinded – usually by their own economic interests.
That is why family practitioners (average income under $200k US) versus specialists (average income $350k US) tend to get integrative medicine more.
If you prefer to give voice to ignorance – you are entitled to do so.
Let your readers be clear as to what you champion.
Thank you for your comment,
for the moment I have just one question. Does the book cover the total number of patients of conventional medicine and the proportion that doesn’t die?
Without this information it is impossible to determine the risk vs benefit that medicine is all about.
And the same applies at my blogs.
carneades.aimoo.com
carneades thales strato @atheist bloggers
thales. blogger.com
strato of ga. wordpress
ignosticmorgan’s blog ditto
and others.
I’d appreciate someone who might want to be a sort of expert in science and/or philosophy of science or religion.
Thanks.
Dude, if you’re going to spam your blogs they should actually have content.
I find it amusing when people go and on about how they think that natural medicine and alternative is “unscientific”. Currently the gold standard in research for determining whether or not a therapy is effective is the double-blind controlled study. However, isn’t funny that almost no surgical procedure has been researched using the double-blind controlled study and yet thousands of surgeries are performed everyday and it very well accepted by the public and the medical establishment. This is truly a double standard. Surgical procedures are no more scientifically proven than acupuncture and chiropractic care. In fact there are many controlled studies of acupuncture, chiropractic and nutrition that don’t make it into the major media. So people think that just because you see some great new medical treatment on Good Morning America that is the only form of health care. When in reality there is as much good research on “alternative” as there in on traditional medicine. It is big mis-perception that medicine is more scientific.
For why that argument is unconvincing see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
A mutual acquaintance of ours, Cherie, linked me to your blog, and I must say it is fucking hilarious and awesome. Bravo Sir, +1 to you.
much obliged, I’ll have to thank her for the recommend. Cheers