Blind Science by Ed Howes

Scientific proof - it is all we care about. We paid much time and money to learn this, therefore; it must be more valuable than anything we can learn with an investment of less time and money. It justifies the ever spiraling costs of our practice. This is like saying that a course of instruction in a university is far more valuable than the regular use of the public library. That free knowledge can only be worth what we've paid for it.

Western scientific medicine has taken this arrogant stance for close to a century. Little or no respect is paid to all the medical history that preceded scientific inquiry. Their god is scientific method and they pretend all they do is proven safe and effective by someone. They have no use for anecdotal evidence that created the folk and traditional medicine, practiced around the world to this very day. If grandma passed her gallstones with a mega dose of olive oil, they don't care because grandma is uneducated and does not worship scientific method. If a treatment doesn't come from our fraternity, it is of no value to us. By this attitude, we know their worship of science is more important than the Hippocratic Oath they swear. They are free to do all kinds of harm; if it is scientific. They have a license to kill and they do not take it lightly. Or do they?

They would rather see you die from their often admittedly ineffective treatments, than to see you live, due to treatment that is unscientific. If a million people use an unscientific remedy and two die, it makes the TV news so the rest of the million will know they are flirting with death. They will finally go see the doctor they have not trusted for years. If they go see that doctor, they may wait for hours to be told; "I don't know anything about that treatment. You are probably throwing your money away." Then he will send them a bill for his service and they know they just threw their money away and they are sure this is what scientific medicine is all about. Why do you think they call their customers patients? "If you come to us for help you will have to be patient."

The motto of the American Medical Association must be: keep them busy and keep them ignorant. Encourage the members to continue education that we approve and leave them little time to do so. Get them to choose specialties in school that further narrow their medical focus. Work them to exhaustion with the promise of six figure incomes. Point out that this sacrificial lifestyle gives them nobility and authority. "Mr. Jones, I do this procedure thirty times a week, you can trust me." It means the same as when buying a used car.

Many millions of Americans no longer care about scientific method and double blind studies. If the friend, co worker, neighbor or stranger in a waiting room, mentions she got relief from arthritis using an unproven method, the sufferer won't hesitate to try it.

If a million people are using scientifically "proven" prescription drugs and a hundred of them die from unproven drug interactions, the cause of death is a stroke, a heart attack, or natural causes. That will not be TV news and many of us wonder how many die every year from scientific treatment. How many people die to support the 186 billion dollar pharmaceutical industry? Their motto appears to be; whatever ails you - take more drugs, especially ours. Ask your doctor for a prescription.

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